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This makes no logical sense, Unlimited Data and using more Data then you paid for?..................... Again this logic is based on emotions not facts.
Fact Unlimited
Fact cannot overuse Unlimited
I suspect I have been running businesses and selling usage based services before you were alive. I also suspect you have no actual experience with this from the standpoint of running any kind of business. So forgive me when I take my word and understanding of how providing usage based services to customer bases actually work.
And I read your statement about Data usage, you contend that all Unlimited plan users are using too much data when they go over 2gb?
Because At&t expects the average user to use 300mb? I'm not sure we are talking about Unlimited then? What are we talking about?
AT&T sets their price for 2gigs of usage based on what the average user consumes, not on what it would cost them to provide 2 gigs of service to every customer. If they charged every costumer how much it would cost AT&T for every customer to use 2 gigs of service every month, then cost would be close to $100 a month for everyone. AT&T unlikely has to resources to have all their customers to use 2 gigs a month.
Companies oversell resources in situations like this because it allows them to offer things for a more affordable price. I recommend you take some basic statistics classes and get a feeling for how numbers work and how averages work and all the rest.
A simple example is say AT&T has two customers. Customer A uses 250 megs of data a month. Customer B uses 1.3 gigs of data every month.
Let us say AT&T's cost for supplying data is $2 per 100 megs. With 1.55 gigs used, the cost for AT&T to supply that data is $31.
AT&T reviews this and determines to cover their costs and make a profit, they need to charge each customer $25 a month. So the revenue they make from those 2 customers is $50. The money left over after paying for the cost of supplying the data is $19 a month.
Now say AT&T introduces tethering. It is unlikely anyone will start using less data when they use tetheirng. The first month of tethering, Customer A uses 250 megs of data, and Customer B uses their full 2 gigs. So now AT&T has to pay for supplying 2.25 gigs of data at $2 per 100 megs. The total cost for AT&T to supply that data is $45. That leaves AT&T with a gross net of only $5 to pay for all their other expenses and make a profit. They end up losing money.
At this point AT&T has a couple of options. They could raise the price for everyone. Say raise the monthly fee for 2 gigs of data to $35 a month. This would leave them with a $18 gross net per month, which is pretty much what they had before tethering. The problem with that is customer A is not tethering, not using any more data yet is paying more per month, just because of Customer B.
The other option is they can charge Customer B $20 for tethering. Now AT&T has $70 of revenue with $45 of expenses and they are back in the ballpark of covering all their expenses and making money. This is the route AT&T has chosen to take, and most people think it is the right route. The only people who disagree are those who want others to pay for their data.
Now take the example that AT&T would charge a price to cover the ability for every customer to use 2 gigs a month. That is 4 gigs total usage, at $2 per 100 megs, that would be $80 in expenses. Allowing them to keep their same amount of gross revenue, that would mean they would need to charge about $50 a month per user.
This is how an average usage based business works. This is how they price their services, this is how they make money. You, for some reason, think AT&T should make much less money or lose money or someone else should pay more to subsidize your usage. AT&T and everyone else disagrees with you.
Fact arguing is useless when its emotional...............
Certainly nothing emotional about me in this discussion. I have presented the facts, I have actual real world experience and understanding of the issues. You seem to be upset that you won't be able to continue stealing tethering from AT&T. If anyone is emotional here it is certainly you.
As far as calculating what you make and what your customers use has nothing with providing a service and what in reality people use. If you run a service business they may or may not use it.
Again you have to learn about statistics and human behavior. It is all very predictable. The more customers you have the more predictable it becomes. What any single user does in a given month is 100% irrelevant to how AT&T sets their pricing.
If you sell plans to at $100 a pop on computers that would fix them for free or replace them knowing that over 90% will not use the plan in the end based on years past, then 6 months from that figure rose to 70% using the plan to fix and or replace, its not the customers fault you have provided the plan. that is comparable to people using unlimited, if At&t wants people to stop using 50gb a month, then At&t must discontinue the plan. Its At&t's fault not theirs.
AT&T's plan for unlimited data NEVER allowed for tethering. You seem to think it did but it did not. The reason why they never did anything about it before was they had no way to offer additional usage for people who needed more, and felt it would be hard to force people who needed more data into a corner where they couldn't get it even if they wanted to pay for it.
Now they have taken care of their legitimate customers who want to pay for their tethering, they can go after the criminals.
I Hurt no one by tethering it can't be proven because no one has proven it.
AT&T's cellular data resources are finite. They also cost money to use. When you use them for tethering without paying for it, you are causing the costs for AT&T to go up. So you are stealing money from them. That directly hurts them and their shareholders. On top of that it ultimately causes prices to go up for other customers to make up for your stealing.
Your illegal tethering actually negatively impacts millions of other people.
At&t want to collect more money and more fees thats all it is.
And you want to steal something, that is all it is.
I feel there are some At&t employees posting on here these days.
I feel there are some criminals posting on here these days.
