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Anyone still getting BS at&t messages about tethering?
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Problem is, AT&T by that note they sent you has said they will assume your silence = guilt (and now they can argue that you agreed to guilt since you stayed silent when they notified you that they would assume your silence meant you were ok with them switching you over).
All I'm saying is that you are setting yourself up for (at best) a helluva lot more hassle than one phone call trying to clear things up with AT&T if you choose to ignore the text and do nothing.
Hope you don't need good credit for quite a few years if you go this route. I had my identity stolen (they opened thirteen cards in my name and got about 50,000 of credit in my name) and yes, waiting for years and years eventually it does go away - I gave up on arguing it cause yeah, when it comes to identity theft (or anything that involves something on your credit report), you are guilty until proven innocent (you really have to hire a lawyer if you want to clear your name, that's the only thing the credit reporting companies fear. Otherwise they get paid for your credit report whether it is accurate or not and the only leverage you have is sueing them).
Plus, I have to worry that some scummy old debt purchaser will purchase the few debts I never managed to clear off my credit but instead got timed off (They don't care that it is accurate, they use loopholes so that the debt gets renewed and doesn't get timed off, and these guys are real sleezes and use every trick in the book including some very illegal ones and stuff like threats of harm even! and really you either have to get very book smart on all the laws to stop them or hire a lawyer). It has happened before to people (They buy old debts for pennies on the dollar and really ratchet up the hassling in order to just get people to pay them to go away).
Point is you could easily stop all of that just by calling AT&T and trying to explain to them that you were not tethering. In the long run it will save you a lot more hassle. Sure, you may be in the right, but it will do you no good to go with your plan of attack. I mean personally I'd say it's worth at least a try to call them up and explain.
Yes I got the text message the other day after using mywi. I stopped tethering and a week later received a letter in the mail that said quit before may 13 or they will change my plan. I still haven't seen anywhere that AT&T has changed someone's plan... Has anyone else? I dont use slingbox but I do watch Netflix a bit.... I have only used 4.3gb in past 2 months...
I guess a few days late.
But I use the slingplayer app from time to time. I occasionally use MyWi. Mostly the few times I travel, otherwise I don't find a need to tether.
Anyways, I got a message yesterday about the tethering usage and offering to inform me about tethering plans.
At this point, I'm tempted to switch to spring and 4g service.
But I use the slingplayer app from time to time. I occasionally use MyWi. Mostly the few times I travel, otherwise I don't find a need to tether.
Anyways, I got a message yesterday about the tethering usage and offering to inform me about tethering plans.
At this point, I'm tempted to switch to spring and 4g service.
i got the same text yesterday.
i will continue tethering though as I only have 4 months on my contract. if they want to charge me for it, they can go ahead and do so; and i will pay.
but if they do charge me they will guarantee themselves the loss of a whole family plan. been with them 4 years and if they want to be bitches i will gladly switch.
I'm tethering now on pdanet. Wish I had turned on the hide usage option earlier 
I think I may be able to pay for sprint with tethering for the same cost as my current att plan without. The sprint branch employee I spoke with was talking to me about rooting the phone and just get free tethering. I wish the evo 3d was out because I would have purchased it today.
Checked out the verizon thunderbolt as well, but I've just heard that phone having so many issues and the cost of doing business with verizon seems to high.
Screen on it looked lackluster compared to the samsung AMOLEDs....
May switch to the nexus S if I can return it within the month and get a evo 3d.
I think I may be able to pay for sprint with tethering for the same cost as my current att plan without. The sprint branch employee I spoke with was talking to me about rooting the phone and just get free tethering. I wish the evo 3d was out because I would have purchased it today.
Checked out the verizon thunderbolt as well, but I've just heard that phone having so many issues and the cost of doing business with verizon seems to high.
Screen on it looked lackluster compared to the samsung AMOLEDs....
May switch to the nexus S if I can return it within the month and get a evo 3d.
According to some MR readers, the hide usage function doesn't work.I'm tethering now on pdanet. Wish I had turned on the hide usage option earlier
Their is that threatened class action lawsuit in progress also. The claim is that ATT has consistently overcharged for bandwidth and tethering even on accts that were doing neither. The lawyers group got 39 new phones and contracts and never throned them on, but was charged for data and texts they never made over a several month period or more.
The suit is slowly winding it's way through the courts and eventually the lawyers will most likely win and we will all get some monies back and lower rates. It threatens to become a class action suit as well.
The suit is slowly winding it's way through the courts and eventually the lawyers will most likely win and we will all get some monies back and lower rates. It threatens to become a class action suit as well.
A friend of mine tethered 3 times, and received the message from AT&T. He did not respond and they changed his plan, so he called. They were able to tell him when he tethered and how much data was sent and received. They told him they could not change it back, so he canceled and went to Tmoble, he has an unlocked iPhone.
So just a heads up, they are changing plans, and they told him since he did not call they assumed he accepted their actions.
So just a heads up, they are changing plans, and they told him since he did not call they assumed he accepted their actions.
So I got home from work and found the letter from ATT.
Says I have to call them by May 27th or they auto change my plan to one of the 4GB tethering options.
So lame. I thought they charged $20 for tethering and I could keep my unlimited data to tether.
Oh well, I will run Justin.tv streams of whatever whenever I'm sleeping just to abuse the hell out of my unlimited data; on the iphone that is.
Says I have to call them by May 27th or they auto change my plan to one of the 4GB tethering options.
So lame. I thought they charged $20 for tethering and I could keep my unlimited data to tether.
Oh well, I will run Justin.tv streams of whatever whenever I'm sleeping just to abuse the hell out of my unlimited data; on the iphone that is.
I got the letter and text.
I got the letter and the text within the same week. I've been using TetherMe this year - although only about 10MB a month.
The letter is kinda vague. "It says that if we don't hear from you by May 13th, we plan to automatically enroll you in the DataPro plan 4GB."
But then it says, "If you discontinue tethering, no changes to your current plan will be required"
It's May 20, and my AT&T online account says I'm still on the GPRS WAP UNLTD DOM - CMB1 which is the unlimited data plan for the iphone.
I have not tethered for about a month now. I'm waiting for proof that PdaNET's stealth mode actually works.... I don't think it does yet.
My favorite part of the letter is at the bottom we will provide unlimited usage of Wi-Fi at no additional charge! Whooopdee fracking doo!
I got the letter and the text within the same week. I've been using TetherMe this year - although only about 10MB a month.
The letter is kinda vague. "It says that if we don't hear from you by May 13th, we plan to automatically enroll you in the DataPro plan 4GB."
But then it says, "If you discontinue tethering, no changes to your current plan will be required"
It's May 20, and my AT&T online account says I'm still on the GPRS WAP UNLTD DOM - CMB1 which is the unlimited data plan for the iphone.
I have not tethered for about a month now. I'm waiting for proof that PdaNET's stealth mode actually works.... I don't think it does yet.
My favorite part of the letter is at the bottom we will provide unlimited usage of Wi-Fi at no additional charge! Whooopdee fracking doo!
He must have not only ignored them, but also continued to tether. In the letter, it says that AT&T will only automatically bump your plan if you continue to tether.
What's your overall monthly data usage though? I've tethered every weekday this past week and haven't received any warning.
My last month was 4 GB. My average is around 1GB. I think they are sending the notices in waves which makes sense.
Some people got theirs as early as March 2011... I got mine in May.
I personally thinks it has to do with overall data consumption. 4GB is quiet a hefty amount, I've used up 500MB's and I'm already 20 days into my billing cycle.
I'm looking at my past usage and I have 2 spikes at 3.3 and 3.4 GB in Feb and April. In feb, I wasn't tethering, I was streaming basketball games over slingplayer. I think did a little tethering in April because thats when I re-jb'd.
But my data usage has def increased since last fall, on average. Have not used more than 4GB in a month and never gone over 5gb. I don't see why using that amount of data is suspicious. I do routinely watch videos on my phone while at work.
But my data usage has def increased since last fall, on average. Have not used more than 4GB in a month and never gone over 5gb. I don't see why using that amount of data is suspicious. I do routinely watch videos on my phone while at work.
No he only tethered 3 times and none after the text messages or letters, so again if you think just stopping will stop them from changing go right ahead, but he did not contact AT&T until after they changed his data package.
Not from what the person above this post said the note says.
That says to me that if you do not contact them, they will assume you want the tethering plan.
I know it also says this:
but that can also read as, if you stop tethering, we will allow you to keep the same plan but if you continue to tether, we insist that you must change plans. Not that you don't have to call them not to have it switch.
So, I would say they plain out tell you that if you don't call them, they are going to switch you over to the tethering plan.
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He lied. I just spoke with AT&T and the CSR said that they only add if they detect illegal tethering after that date.
Makes sense. Some people who only tethered once over two years ago would be pretty pissed if they were slammed to the $45/mo plan without permission.
openendstraight said:
He lied. I just spoke with AT&T and the CSR said that they only add if they detect illegal tethering after that date.
Makes sense. Some people who only tethered once over two years ago would be pretty pissed if they were slammed to the $45/mo plan without permission.
The Issue and Policy Implication: I just switched two days ago to tmobile from at&t. They were practically harrasing me about this tethering issue and I had not been tethering either. I had even deleted the MyWi app from my Cydia factory unlocked iphone 4.
Policy Implementation: look up a Samsung Galaxy S4G (tmobile) on craigslist and got someone to exchange it for my iPhone4 (no monies wasted), after headed over to the tmobile store and got the even more plus plan for $69.99 unlimitted text/web and 1,000min/month and problem solved.
Policy Implementation: look up a Samsung Galaxy S4G (tmobile) on craigslist and got someone to exchange it for my iPhone4 (no monies wasted), after headed over to the tmobile store and got the even more plus plan for $69.99 unlimitted text/web and 1,000min/month and problem solved.
At least T-Mobile will allow you to keep your unlimited data plan and have a tethering plan. For an additional $20 its definitely worth it in my opinion. At&T charges $45 vs their $50 but you can keep your data plan.
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Just got the letter in the mail today. It definitely sucks but I can live without tethering. The funny part of the story is I have been using MyWi for a year on and off for web browsing in places I don't have wifi. My usage is around 1.5gb a month (the bulk of that is streaming music on my commute) and I'm on an unlimited plan. Last month I moved and had my AT&T U-verse internet set to transfer to the new place as soon as I moved in. Turns out they couldn't activate on the date they promised and I would have to wait over 2 weeks. In the meantime I tether from my phone. About 2 1/2 weeks passes by and still no activation. I call them and it turns out there is no U-Verse service where I moved into. How they made that mistake I have no idea. They tell me I can only get AT&T DSL and it will take 12 days until they can activate. So nearly a month passes by and I tethered pretty much every day and racked up over 4gb (me + girlfriend). To make matters worse the DSL bill came and it was $5 more than the price they offered me. Of course they wouldn't give me the original quote so I ended up cancelling and paying an extra $5 for Time Warner Cable which was activated the next day and 4mbps faster...
I spoke with att yesterday. He said they were auditing all iphone accounts to see if anyone has ever tethered and/or jailbroken since they started with ATT. That they now had a way to detect it. That they were enforcing there terms of service and were not trying to force people off of the unlimited data plans (unprompted by me, but something my father had overheard himself the other day).
After some thought, I'll be switching to Sprint.
I like my iphone, but not enough to stick by att. Verizon is just as pricey.
After some thought, I'll be switching to Sprint.
I like my iphone, but not enough to stick by att. Verizon is just as pricey.