That's because of people in your area stealing the bandwidth that you were trying to steal from them. The nerve of them!!
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AT&T Announces New Limited Data Rollover Feature for Mobile Share Value Customers
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Go start your own company and run it at 0 profit. Let me know how that works for you
Or, they can switch to Sprint or T-Mobile...low-cost = low performance.
People don't realize that it takes money to build a great wireless network.
When are the phone companies going to stop stealing from us?
I buy 10Gb of data in a month, at a price that is far higher than in many other countries. If I use only 7Gb, they simply steal the data I paid for.
The next month I use 11Gb, and they hit me with an overage charge. Even if I only used 1Gb a month for a year, and they have stolen 108Gb from me, they will still charge me extra if I go even a Kb over on the 13th month.
It is a disgusting practice, and this move by AT&T is one step ahead of literally the least they could do.
So how about they announce they are not going to steal anymore? A fair price for a decent service, and if I pay for it, I get to keep it until I use it.
Do you expect an insurance company to pay you back your full premium when you don't have a car accident? I look at data rates the same way. You need to buy as much data as you feel comfortable using. If you constantly buy 5gb and only use 2gb, maybe you should just switch to 2gb plan? It is the same with insurance rates. They aren't stealing from you as you are the one determining the amount of coverage you're willing to pay for!
So I'm guessing the "rolled-over" data will be used after your monthly allotment. Meaning if you have 5GB unused on your 10GB plan, then next month you use 10GB exactly you will have 0GB rolled over for the following month, rather than the left over 5GB.
Even still it is not a bad deal. On the business side this is a win for AT&T because once you use your rollover data one month you will most likely start using more data in general, meaning the next month they get overage charges or you bump up your plan...
Even still it is not a bad deal. On the business side this is a win for AT&T because once you use your rollover data one month you will most likely start using more data in general, meaning the next month they get overage charges or you bump up your plan...
I know I could research myself but I'm lazy. Does anyone know how the T-Mobile rollover works compared to AT&T? AT&T is 1 month only.
When are the phone companies going to stop stealing from us?
I buy 10Gb of data in a month, at a price that is far higher than in many other countries. If I use only 7Gb, they simply steal the data I paid for.
The next month I use 11Gb, and they hit me with an overage charge. Even if I only used 1Gb a month for a year, and they have stolen 108Gb from me, they will still charge me extra if I go even a Kb over on the 13th month.
It is a disgusting practice, and this move by AT&T is one step ahead of literally the least they could do.
So how about they announce they are not going to steal anymore? A fair price for a decent service, and if I pay for it, I get to keep it until I use it.
This is why internet (whether its broadband from the cable company or wireless from a cellular carrier) should be considered a utility and metered the way all utilities are metered - by unit of use. If the water company charges me per gallon, and the electric company charges me per killowatt hour, then internet providers should charge me per megabyte, with the attendant price-reductions for quantity.
To the above milk analogy, we pay for milk by the gallon or ounce. To the above TV analogy - not paying per unit is how we get cabletv with bundled channels nobody wants. To the above guy complaining about having his data stolen, if you buy it per unit, it will not be stolen (except to rounding).
I know this view is unpopular - people like the comfort of paying for unlimited or a giant monthly allowance and not worrying about it, but that type of pricing gets is the spaghetti mess of a system we're in today.
What is unfair is that my grandfather who uses at most 500MB per month to check yahoo news and look at family photos pays only about 25% less than I do for cellular and internet, but I use at least 10x more data per month than he does.
I'm still hanging onto my "unlimited" plan (ie. 5gb throttle plan) for my dear life. I have a bit of jealousy about data rollover. This would have convinced me to just keep this plan had they enabled it for us too! But, you're absolutely right, my bill runs about $65 after taxes and fees and that is with subsidy, no monthly phone cost added on top, so I can't switch to Mobile Share or NEXT!
I very much doubt that, since his data stash idea will gain him 0 new customers as others will just do the same.
He's in it for his stockholders and company... his ideas, while changing the industry isn't helping his company as much as you'd think, since now his competitors do the same thing, so people either don't bother changing, or they come back once they realize t-mobiles network is inferior.
Appears some people just like to BITCH and MOAN.
We used to PAY extra for unlimited data. Finally got smart and dropped that. I should not have waited so long.
We now pay way less for 4 smartphones and lots of data. And we no longer have to pay for data on ipads, or hotel charges for computer, since we now have tethering/hot spot.
And now, they give us a little break if a random month here or there goes over - if we have a little rollover to help out.
Sure, it is not as good as T-Mobile. And to be honest we would not have even considered switching.
As someone else said earlier - if you want to start your own business, go for it!
We used to PAY extra for unlimited data. Finally got smart and dropped that. I should not have waited so long.
We now pay way less for 4 smartphones and lots of data. And we no longer have to pay for data on ipads, or hotel charges for computer, since we now have tethering/hot spot.
And now, they give us a little break if a random month here or there goes over - if we have a little rollover to help out.
Sure, it is not as good as T-Mobile. And to be honest we would not have even considered switching.
As someone else said earlier - if you want to start your own business, go for it!
basically it is worthless. I like T-Mobiles 12 month one better as it protects against a true spike that I am going to guess for families happen March, December and heavy drain during the summer months.
Yes it is... it's part of your unlimited monthly plan. Mobile share plans are just pure data, so the added "cost" of having the phone on the plan is just shown separately.
Well I will take it. Maybe there will be some pressure to extend it over more months as time goes on. It does mitigate against those occasional months where I travel and use more data than usual.
Although, frankly, I think I'd rather get a free hug from Lilly.
Although, frankly, I think I'd rather get a free hug from Lilly.
So then it will be even more under government thumbs... and we all know how well that always works out.
In Texas, there is water rationing during the summer, we get no discount on the rate, we are just not allowed to use it, by city ordinance. What would happen if a city states that certain towers are over utilized, therefore you are only allowed a certain speed or only allowed to use it at certain times?
The more government stays out of this, the better. It seems healthy competition seems to be working out better then government intervention.
Meh, better than nothing I suppose. I'm still on my grandfathered unlimited data plan, but this will help my wife who always seems to forget to turn wifi back on while at home. (Some women, I tell ya
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Not quite as good as what T-Mobile offers, but still an improvement and I say, "Thank you John Legere!"
