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I was saying the same thing, at least try to do a longer rollover period if u are trying to be competitive with T-Mobile. A month of rollover is not competitive at all compared to T-Mobile rollover plan.
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AT&T Announces New Limited Data Rollover Feature for Mobile Share Value Customers
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I was saying the same thing, at least try to do a longer rollover period if u are trying to be competitive with T-Mobile. A month of rollover is not competitive at all compared to T-Mobile rollover plan.
Nobody has to sell it like that in this location. Should China claim discrimination because they got their iPhones later then the U.S.? Should brazil claim discrimination because their iPhones cost more? This is how company's choice to run the market place in the U.S. No discrimination going on here.
I just changed my plan on ATT to the Data share. I have two lines and its 130.00 a month with 6 gigs to share with unlimited talk and message. I was paying around 200 a month before with unlimited everything but the graph on my profile showed I wasn't even using 5 gigs a month with both phones so this was a no brainer. So with the roll over hopefully I can hoard the left over data every OTHER month hahaha what a joke.
Cheap BS like this is exactly why I'd love ANY level of T-Mobile service where I live. I'd love to dump AT&T on their butts. 
For all the unappreciative whiners that think that AT&T owes them more, remember this, YOU SIGNED UP for the service, knowing well that AT&T would NOT GIVE YOU any unused data (each month) back to keep, hoard, or collect. You have ONLY YOURSELF TO BLAME for your unhappy situation.
If you don't like the FREE new feature of being able to keep the previous month's unused data for a month, feel free to contact CS and OPT OUT or leave AT&T.
People have become so entitled.
If you don't like the FREE new feature of being able to keep the previous month's unused data for a month, feel free to contact CS and OPT OUT or leave AT&T.
People have become so entitled.
so happy I still have 2 unlimited data lines from VZW.
From my cold dead hands verizon...
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big difference... cable companies don't charge "overages" if you watch too much one day/month etc
From my cold dead hands verizon...
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big difference... cable companies don't charge "overages" if you watch too much one day/month etc
Another kinda shady thing I noticed is this small print on AT&T's Rollover page:
"Rollover Data is always consumed last, after your other data allowances."
So basically, if I'm on a 30GB plan and use 10GB in one month, 20GB will rollover to the next month, so I should start month 2 with a 50GB total.
But in month 2, I have to consume my original preset 30GB before I can access the 20GB of rollover, which will expire in month 2. So in month 2 if I use 25GB of data, then only 5GB rolls over to the 3rd month instead of all the 25GB that I have unused that month.
Am I thinking through that right??
"Rollover Data is always consumed last, after your other data allowances."
So basically, if I'm on a 30GB plan and use 10GB in one month, 20GB will rollover to the next month, so I should start month 2 with a 50GB total.
But in month 2, I have to consume my original preset 30GB before I can access the 20GB of rollover, which will expire in month 2. So in month 2 if I use 25GB of data, then only 5GB rolls over to the 3rd month instead of all the 25GB that I have unused that month.
Am I thinking through that right??
That's ridiculous, you're alloted up to 10GB you're not actually buying 10GB and you know it (if you were buying it). That's the deal you made with them when you sign a contract.
That's like complaining that the cable company charges you just as much in a month when you watch it 1 hour vs. 720 hours (I should get a refund for the 719 hours I didn't watch!) or my GALLON of milk expired when I only drank 1/4 of it, what a rip off; actually the latter is probably a better example (since a gallon is a choice, but then so is how much you drink).
In the above example, it would make a lot more sense for you to get a 1GB and pay the overages the one month that you go way over. Probably not what you want, but it fits the extremes that you posed.
Realistically, if AT&T knew everyone with a 10GB plan was going to use exactly 10GB a month they'd be charging double or triple the price. Their profit is based on knowing that most people don't use all their data (probably something like 90% of the people only use 10% of their data most months).
But in this matter, I agree with you. I don't even need a year of rollover data, but 90 days would be a lot more reasonable than one month.
It's not shady...it's how it works. You get ONE MONTH of unused PAID DATA rolled over. TMobile is the same way...PAID DATA ONLY is rolled over. Your bonus rolled over data is good that month only. Use it or lose it, basically. It's pretty clear that nothing rolls over to the 3rd month.
No, your example is far off base and mine is accurate.
The point is that you are paying for a certain amount WITHIN a timeframe.
So the Olive Garden case, it is all you can eat while you are there that day (the timeframe). So of course you can't get more the next day without paying more. You didn't pay for for that food for that day.
Your pizza example has no timeframe and so the deal is not at all an appropriate comparison.
If you changed it to say that you paid to get up to 12 slices in the next four hours, that is the deal. The deal is not that you can take it home, or eat it over 8 hours, etc. And if you only eat 8 in those four hours, it does not mean that anyone took 4 slices from you.
I find this all humorous since people are falling for the simple minded advertising that one of the competitors is putting out. Intellectually dishonest and people fall for it.
Okay, that is a much better comparison than the Olive Garden one. I will steal it, I mean borrow it and provide full citation to you.
Sounds like it, it's basically rollover limited to from one month to the next--so not that it just lasts for a only a month but what you get in the next month (if anything) is just from whatever might remain from your regular data in the current month.
Actually, he sounds like an adult, rather than an entitled juvenile-minded person.
AT&T Announces New Limited Data Rollover Feature for Mobile Share Value Custo...
Adults don't use capitals for emphasis.
Adults don't use capitals for emphasis.
While I agree in the general concept being conveyed there, and that getting anything is better than nothing, it doesn't mean that people have to like it and praise it and can't have complaints about it. Just because they went with it doesn't mean it's the best thing in the world, it just happened to be the best fitting thing for them compared to everything else available, but it can certainly still have issues and people can certainly still have qualms about it.
I wish I was so I could get a discount.
It just irks me when people are so unappreciative of something given to them for free. We were just given more data FOR FREE (10->15GB or double your data if over 15GB/mo), and now this FOR FREE, and people still find a reason to complain. ----------
I'm TOO LAZY to use the BOLD controls.
My post was not in reference to technological innovation. This is about rate plans. AT&T believes it is innovating--at least that's what we're supposed to believe with those goofy nerd commercials I see constantly.
Out of curiosity, what would they use on a "colloquial" type of online discussion forum, or basically public comments on a news article? And how is that better (aside from perhaps simply being more "proper")?
And the time you're given a gift is the time to bitch, moan and complain about it? It's like getting a bonus at work and instead of thanking the boss, you complain about how small the bonus is, how your salary is too low, and the boss is an ass. Same thing, right?