Or at least offer a promo to existing customers like $30 for 5GB with tethering instead of $30 for 3GB without tethering. I know its not a huge difference, but its at least something that is reasonable to AT&T
How about just matching or beating the competition's offerings and COMPETING for customers instead of alienating and expecting their customers to simply take their prices and services as is?
Sorry but do they CAP your data? or do they throttle you over a certain amount so that you get what you are paying for with your 2007 unlimited data plan. You are paying for 3G speeds, not LTE. I suggest AT&T let you have 3G unlimited, at the 1mb or less you would have gotten in 2007.
Throttling and capping might as well be considered the same thing because once a certain level of data used is met, it's pretty much unusable.
Actually, I am paying for unlimited LTE data as AT&T converted Unlimited 3G to Unlimited LTE. That's what it says on my bill in the year 2013.
I wouldn't mind if AT&T throttled back down to 3G speeds once I hit a certain cap because 3G is usable at least. I've been throttled before and the speeds were slower than EDGE.
I get 35-40mb/s regularly on AT&T LTE network in Tampa. Should I be allowed unlimited data on the cellular network at that speed. If they did, it would crush the network.
Yes, you should be allowed to have unlimited data at full speed because that is exactly what you are paying for.
Crushing the network would imply that EVERYONE is using the network AT THE SAME TIME. But in reality, not everyone is doing that. I'm sure that most people are connected to wi-fi when they are at home.
But for those of us who are not always close to a wi-fi network, like me, I would like to be able to know that I have a reliable network that I am connected to and use all I want when I need it.
I am flipping sick of clueless people who moan and complain when they can't get stuff for free.
Is this the face that you're making from being so flipping sick?
No one is getting LTE for free because those using AT&T's network is paying for it monthly.
AT&T is provides an UNLIMITED data plan and it would be great to know that customers are getting WHAT THEY PAID FOR. If customers do not get what they pay for, in this case, UNLIMITED and UNTHROTTLED data, customers therefore have EVERY right to complain. Does that make sense to you?
AT&T is clearly investing in faster LTE networks which is not free...
AT&T has had their towers up for a very long time and I imagine that it doesn't cost them much more to upgrade them over to LTE.
How about AT&T's CEO/executive team not making some crazy nine figure salary/bonuses and leaving that money in the company to pay for the upgrade? How much money does any one person really need? AT&T makes money from its customers hand over fist and the CEO stated that he regrets giving customers unlimited data because they can't charge more since real-world usage was well over 5GB per month.