Anything but the best
'Put another way, this does not impact more than 95 percent of our smartphone customers.'
- per 'Macrumors'
Oh, yes it does.
If looking into this, one will discover that AT&T and the United States in general are facing a serious shortage of wireless broadband capacity. So AT&T at least has the excuse of that: if even wanting to allow unlimited access to its network it literally could not. And the same goes more or less for all other providers. But this only highlights the sorry state of a system that they and their ilk have had a large hand in instituting and retaining.
If having used an iPhone recently, they will also appreciate that such devices are capable of much more than simple phone calls, and designed as such. Any customer thinking different wouldn't, aside from possibly fashion, have a reason to buy them in lieu of something simpler otherwise. 3GB of data in a month is a ludicrously small amount in consideration of how these devices might be used. Just the download of two average movies could easily see one over their limit, and quickly in as much trouble if streaming, etc. It doesn't really much matter all the hype one is subjected to about 3G this and 4G that, when the reality is all it will get you is very quickly to the point where your service will be slowed to a crawl and all academic.
I've heard that internet service in New Zealand is even worse, if that is any consolation. But decidedly better elsewhere, and it should be lost on no one that a truly fast, (at least near) unlimited, and inexpensive internet (wireless most specifically included) is the lifeblood of a progressive and prosperous modern economy. That applies whether one personally never intends to stream anything, and thinking in no danger of running over such low limits.
AT&T has some reason to do some triage now, and as best they can manage a difficult wireless spectrum shortage. But their true measure as a company will be determined if in time they only get better in making excuses for limited and expensive wireless -- OR endeavor to increase what is possible, to the extent that caps of 3GB are but a regrettable historical footnote. Otherwise, they might be.
'Put another way, this does not impact more than 95 percent of our smartphone customers.'
- per 'Macrumors'
Oh, yes it does.If looking into this, one will discover that AT&T and the United States in general are facing a serious shortage of wireless broadband capacity. So AT&T at least has the excuse of that: if even wanting to allow unlimited access to its network it literally could not. And the same goes more or less for all other providers. But this only highlights the sorry state of a system that they and their ilk have had a large hand in instituting and retaining.
If having used an iPhone recently, they will also appreciate that such devices are capable of much more than simple phone calls, and designed as such. Any customer thinking different wouldn't, aside from possibly fashion, have a reason to buy them in lieu of something simpler otherwise. 3GB of data in a month is a ludicrously small amount in consideration of how these devices might be used. Just the download of two average movies could easily see one over their limit, and quickly in as much trouble if streaming, etc. It doesn't really much matter all the hype one is subjected to about 3G this and 4G that, when the reality is all it will get you is very quickly to the point where your service will be slowed to a crawl and all academic.
I've heard that internet service in New Zealand is even worse, if that is any consolation. But decidedly better elsewhere, and it should be lost on no one that a truly fast, (at least near) unlimited, and inexpensive internet (wireless most specifically included) is the lifeblood of a progressive and prosperous modern economy. That applies whether one personally never intends to stream anything, and thinking in no danger of running over such low limits.
AT&T has some reason to do some triage now, and as best they can manage a difficult wireless spectrum shortage. But their true measure as a company will be determined if in time they only get better in making excuses for limited and expensive wireless -- OR endeavor to increase what is possible, to the extent that caps of 3GB are but a regrettable historical footnote. Otherwise, they might be.
