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AT&T Delays Wi-Fi Calling Support Amid Wait for FCC Waiver, Calls Out Sprint and T-Mobile
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I pay $156/month including the mandatory $7 monthly equipment fee for Internet only without targeted advertising. If you opt into allowing targeted advertising, it's $30/month cheaper, I believe.
I sincerely doubt that since WiFi calling should reduce the load on AT&T's network, which is the whole point of preventing us from tethering
I have been Skype calling on my iPhone for a few years now. The dinosaur companies need to get with the 21st Century or end like JC Penny ...
AT&T badmouthing the other carriers. What's new? They are not launching the service because they technically can't or they won't make any money from it... Or both! That's why. Happy with my wifi calling on t-mobile... and data stash for one year - not one month -, and worldwide unlimited data and texts, and texts in many airplanes in the US, and no overcharges when I run out of my high-speed data, and 45Mbps at my local park, and my low prices. And with band 12 on the new 6s, watch their coverage in the countryside. There's no reason to choose ATT any more. Only Verizon has better coverage... and none of the features I just mentioned, all for a much higher price.
You absolutely need to switch. We just moved to T-mobile and got 6 new iPhone 6s for 5 and 10 dollars a month with the trade in of our old phones. We also get 10gigs of data per person and it rolls over each month. At&t were killing us on overage charges because of my kids music streaming and by the way music streaming is free and in my area coverage is great. Did i mention that they gave me their personal cell spot for free and anyone switching can get the same deals.Thanks AT&T. This solidifies my decision to switch to T-Mobile.
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The public utility board of Chattanooga tn is forward thinking 1gbps fiber is available to all of their area for 30 and 70 dollars. My son has it and it is great.
Because T-Mobile offered me better service, such as tethering and wifi calling, for a cheaper price with unlimited data.
The whole point of preventing tethering was not to reduce the loan on the network, it was to reduce the number of unlimited data holdouts by enticing them to switch to a limited data plan so they could take advantage of tethering.
After years of me praising att, I finally woke the F up and realized how bad they had gotten. And recently I learned about t mobile and band 12. That's all I needed to jump ship.
I get wifi calling, tethering, rollover data, 10gb per line for 2 lines plus a bonus 10gb of data per line that rolls over for $100 a month. Att can go F itself. They will never see a penny from me again.
I get way better service from tmo on my iPhone 6s Plus then I ever did with att here in LA (Los Angeles, not Louisiana)
I get wifi calling, tethering, rollover data, 10gb per line for 2 lines plus a bonus 10gb of data per line that rolls over for $100 a month. Att can go F itself. They will never see a penny from me again.
I get way better service from tmo on my iPhone 6s Plus then I ever did with att here in LA (Los Angeles, not Louisiana)
Funny… as I was reading your comments, just below appeared an ad for - and I quote - "AT&T U-Verse high-speed internet $30/month". So I checked the offer and here's what high-speed means for AT&T: U-verse High Speed Internet up to 768 Kbps. Shows in which century they live! ...and how stupid they think customers are!
From what I can gather TTY is too antiquated, won't work well with WiFi calling and they want to roll out a better alternative to TTY which may take 1-3 years to complete they need FCC Approval to temporarily offer WiFi Calling as is in the interim as well as approval for their new TTY Alternative
It's not ideally an open Beta and making it an open Beta may have repricussions.
To be fair the WiFi calling STILL Works for many provided you stick to iOS Beta versions. The public iOS Beta is still open/ongoing if you're persistent and want it badly enough get iOS Beta and force AT&T WiFi to work the same way all of us that aren't even supposed to have it did
( apparently the WiFi Calling Beta was only supposed to be in 3 select markets only according to AT&T )
I've had NO Problems transitioning even been able to Base Network to WiFi Calling network something even AT&T MicroCell couldn't ever do. Used to be only a 1 way handoff/transition
Thanks AT&T. This solidifies my decision to switch to T-Mobile.
LOL you 3 are suckers for leaving AT&T for T-Mobile have fun having your information stolen, getting horrid customer service, getting the runaround, lied to for the sake of their gimmicks and them getting you off their back, oh and ProTip "Unlimited" with them or anyone is never really unlimited because yay fine print
In theory yes you may need to re-enable it on your 6S+ in the settings and hopefully it works or you may need to join iOS Beta to access it.
For me this bill cycle it's actually listed as an active yet FREE feature on my account/line of service so hopefully it's just tied to your account/plan/features at this point.
You can keep sucking that AT&T tit if you want. But believe me when I tell you that the only sucker here is you for thinking the T-Mobile of today (with their 700mhz band 12) is the same T-Mobile of yesteryear. I couldn't find a single place where att has service and T-Mobile didn't in my testing. But I found many places where att didn't have service and T-Mobile did.
As for unlimited not being unlimited with T-Mobile, are you kidding me? Is unlimited unlimited with AT&T????? Are you seriously that delusional? Does AT&T give you free tethering of all your data? Wifi calling? Roll over what data you don't use and keep it for 12 months????? 2 lines with 10gb each plus and extra 10gb rollover data per line for $100 a month?????????
Didn't think so.
NOT Worth their hassles lies and risks
You can choose to use it when you want
Or did you not join when it was in Beta?
They didn't exactly "turn it off" persay they are just limiting new people joining the Beta for it or people disabling then re-enabling it. Best to keep it on as is and NOT Make any changes to it while the damned FCC Has them in feature limbo
No Apple devices till either the 5S or 6
and iOS 7 rollout even had ANY Carrier WiFi Calling support so it's iffy
You DO NOT "Get charged minutes" yes you use minutes but most plans these days at all carriers include unlimited minutes. Also AT&T for now is supposedly restricting WiFi Calling feature to those on Mobile Share, or Mobile Share Value plans ONLY ( granted some may of forced it w/o those plans ) which includes Unlimited minutes. So yea you're using minutes but no you're NOT Getting charged for them by any means or in any sense
If you did get charged it would likely be cause the ISP's are charging AT&T cause now you're using whoevers network WiFi you're connecting to for your WiFi calls and that's iffy
AT&T Tit? Wow real classy! Glad to see the Internet at its finest even on a website discussing iPhones and such
Did I say they were "the T-Mobile of yesteryear" ? No I didn't
Does 700mhz Band 12 work everywhere? Uh another NO and you're forced to buy the new iPhone or other new compatible device to access it. Not all of us can or do upgrade yearly or more frequent
Couldn't find a single place eh?
Yea because surely you being the rich savvy world traveler you are have been anywhere and everywhere including my parents house wherein T-Mobile = 1 bar of Signal or worse AT&T = 3 bars
Never said AT&T was unlimited data either re-read what I said
Better yet since fully reading is not your forte I'll spell it out this time
Unlimited is Never ever unlimited no mater whom your provider/carrier/"UnCarrier" is
Unlimited is 99.99% myth .01% at a cost
AT&T will keep giving you data if you keep paying beyond limits or throttle on old unlimited grandfathered plans
T-Mobile Sprint whoever
Will give unlimited but at point will throttle you then if you still use too much they cut you off or change your plan because of so called "network abuse"
Still it amounts to not being unlimited in the truest most literal possible sense
Does AT&T Give Free tethering?
Yes I can use ALL OF MY DATA Anyway I see fit and have done hotspotting ( which T-Mobile caps at 7GB or a % of your data bucket ) tethering ( also restricted at T-Mobile ) and normal mobile data usage never had an issue dating back to the iPhone 3GS
WiFi Calling? Clearly you didn't read the article and don't read the comments enough. I have been using WiFi calling pretty dam well on AT&T no costs or nothing
You seem so anti AT&T I have to wonder about you sucking T-Mobile's Tit?
As for pricing and such its all about what you want out of your carrier, what you're willing to pay, if it can be worth the time money etc and if you can get value for your money.
For me I can and I'm fine with AT&T
Could they do better? Hell yea
But T-Mobile Verizon Sprint
( insert other carriers ) can all still improve and do better too
Oh and for the record I'm grandfathered into a promo where I get 30GB 4G LTE with Rollover Data for the price of 10GB before the adjusted pricing recently
I'll grant you the Rollover period NEEDS To be longer at ATT and there's talk about doing it since it's 1 of the top complaints
Side note T-Mobile's customer service has been crap and downhill for years
( I've used T-Mobile off and on for work and on a prepaid bases )
no clue my WiFi Beta Activation still worked and is working from iOS 9 Beta 2 all the way up to iOS 9.1 Beta 3 which I'm on now. Just made a few WiFi calls on AT&T yesterday and today and I intend to use it every chance I get just like any other included or free features lol
#MilkingIt #BetaTesterToTheExtreme
Wi-Fi calling still works for me here in florida. just upgraded phones and re-activated. i did start under beta a couple months back
I have been with T-Mobile for over 3 years and the T -Mobile customer service has been excellent.
The T-Mobile data breach was Experian's fault as they were the one who got hacked. So how is this T-Mobile's fault? Please enlighten everyone on that.
Speaking of data breaches:
http://thedroidguy.com/2014/06/att-data-breach-exposes-private-information-500-customers-93774
http://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-warns-1600-customers-of-data-breach/
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/08/att-data-breaches-revealed-280k-us-customers-exposed.html
Unless you are extremely naive, AT&T customers should also be concerned about their personal information being stolen. And in the case of AT&T, it is a direct result of AT&T's inability to protect the customer information.
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T-mobile is the same at least for me in Chicago. Not getting band 12 anytime soon and extreme congestion in downtown last time I tried it (4 months ago) it was unusable. Indoors, forget about T-mobile. Couldn't even make a call while in downtown Evanston only on the 2nd floor inside right by a window. Had to step outside to make a call- something I previously hadn't had to do for several years on any other carrier. So I'm sticking with AT&T, while they certainly aren't perfect, it works well most of the time except for pockets of congestion in Chicago loop. WiFi calling works very well for me, using iOS 9.0.2 on a new phone, not on a beta iOS anymore.
Point is- LOCATION. All this carrier bashing is so dumb, people. It totally depends on where you are located. For me, t-mobile has been garbage. Wish it wasn't so, I like what they're doing, but, I can't use them.
Point is- LOCATION. All this carrier bashing is so dumb, people. It totally depends on where you are located. For me, t-mobile has been garbage. Wish it wasn't so, I like what they're doing, but, I can't use them.
If you do the math on those articles linked that's 282,100 affected
( less than T-Mobile's 15 million plus affected )
And for the record I worry about BOTH Especially since I had my info run by TMO purely to see what they'd want for me to be able to consider returning within the affected timeframe
How is it TMobile's fault? Let's start with the fact they chose Experian over other industry options
Also lets not shy away from the fact Experian said the affected server "ONLY Had T-Mobile data on it"
That makes the attack look suspiciously targeted what's to stop T-Mobile from having this happen again and more widespread?
Did I ever once flat out state I wasn't concerned? Love how some people on this forum are good for putting words in ones mouth
So now you are downplaying the AT&T data breaches because it was only 282K. And if you do the math that is still 282,000 people affected.
Also let's not shy away from the fact that AT&T had has 3 data breaches within the last 18 months.
Did you ever once flat out state that you were concerned about the 3 AT&T data breaches? No you did not.
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