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AT&T Scales Back Throttling of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans
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Yes but you are on a contract and you don't really own that phone until you are eligible for an upgrade especially if you paid the subsidized price.
You either work for att or they made you believe nonsense
Most of us w unlimited wouldn't mind if the throttle was to decent speed.
Right now w 4/5lte bars and less than 2gb consumed of data I'm getting throtled to 0.20mb. This measurement is done in the same spot where I got 29mb down speed the day I received my 5S
Sometimes they throttle me at 1-3-5gb. Whatever whenever they want. Nowadays even w lte working I pass 10mb down. Very rare.
My equipment works fine so I know it's them playing w the network
Nope. In a 2yr plan AND the next plan you don't own the phone until you finish payments for it. In the 2yr the payments are part of the monthly fee and in next you lease it and don't own it until you pay the lease.
In either setup if you buy your phone outright you don't need to extend the contract. You are clearly getting confused on getting stuck w a plan vs subsidized pricing.
The only equipment benefit of the next program vs 2yr is that you can leave att whenever you want more easily. In the 2yr you can also do it but is more cumbersome. You pay the etf fees that get lower w each month and they plus sub price tend to be less or same as the phone cost.
You can upgrade both plans every year as well if you pay the early fees on the 2yr and get extended or in the next you basically rent not own to upgrade every year.
It is very easy, takes lots of photos and videos and use one of the apps that automatically uploads them and set it to use cellular data.
T-Mobile is still faster since it's less congested. There's no myth- usable bandwidth is higher with T-Mobile when T-Mobile has good reception, which in many places (cities), it does. Your "Perfect" scenario happens to be Austin, and I happen to live there. Therefore, T-Mobile is perfect for me. It sounds like T-Mobile sucks in your area- that's fine, but you don't need to be so butt-hurt over that fact.
at&t also has among the worst customer service in the industry and like I said in the last post, allowed my account to be compromised even with their "security code" arrangement. They didn't even ask for the code to move my SIM card over to the fraudster. Never will do business with them, period.
Edit: Also, upload speeds COMPLETELY are dominated by T-Mobile. at&t never had upload speeds into the 7Mbps range, and I get that regularly on T-Mobile. It's much easier to share photos and videos with T-Mobile.
T-Mobile is still faster since it's less congested. There's no myth- usable bandwidth is higher with T-Mobile when T-Mobile has good reception, which in many places (cities), it does. Your "Perfect" scenario happens to be Austin, and I happen to live there. Therefore, T-Mobile is perfect for me. It sounds like T-Mobile sucks in your area- that's fine, but you don't need to be so butt-hurt over that fact.
at&t also has among the worst customer service in the industry and like I said in the last post, allowed my account to be compromised even with their "security code" arrangement. They didn't even ask for the code to move my SIM card over to the fraudster. Never will do business with them, period.
Edit: Also, upload speeds COMPLETELY are dominated by T-Mobile. at&t never had upload speeds into the 7Mbps range, and I get that regularly on T-Mobile. It's much easier to share photos and videos with T-Mobile.
No I mean there would be more results of 20gb + speed in more locations of the dozen we tested in.
You said TMo is faster than ATT but it's not IRL.
There are less places where it's super fast.
But maybe there is one place where AT&T is like 20Gbps and TMo is 30gbps because nobody is using TMo. No benefit there.
But then drive 10 miles and ATT is like at 15Gpsb and TMo is like 2gbps or just not even on LTE.
But you're taking scenario one and saying it's faster as a blanket statement.
Which is false. I'm not hating just u said dumped ATT like you were way too cool for school
Actually...more like getting punched twice now vs getting punched once before...
2 year = $150 - $200 upfront subsidized phone upgrade fee + under contract for two years
Next = $0 down but you pay $25-$35 extra per month but no contract
However if you decide to switch/cancel you either pay termination fee (2 year) or pay off phone (Next)
I'd rather lock in for 2 years and pay $150-$200 then have the extra monthly fee and pay a $600-$840 over 2 years.
At least that's how I understood it.
yes and no, but remember 2yr contract prices were higher than next prices since the other part of the cost of the cellphone is hidden inside the 2yr plan. Next program w monthly phone payments tend to be around the same as 2yr contract prices, might be higher depending on what you have/get. In the end, as smartphones get more expensive, the few of us able to still have the 2yr contract prices might enjoy a cheaper phone payout if they don't raise the under contract price. If you have more than one phone, or need to have an extra new line, then things could be different and the next program might be a better choice.
I had three. I gave them up for 2 reasons, but one was throtteling because my daughter would go over, then all three of us would pay the price for her using the free data.
Admitedly, i needed more minutes of talk time so swapping to family share has been good for me at about the same cost, if not a tad cheaper.
But if ever there should be a hand slapping for screwing with customers, it should be over the way ATT handles throtteling.
Admitedly, i needed more minutes of talk time so swapping to family share has been good for me at about the same cost, if not a tad cheaper.
But if ever there should be a hand slapping for screwing with customers, it should be over the way ATT handles throtteling.
T-Mobile is still faster since it's less congested. There's no myth- usable bandwidth is higher with T-Mobile when T-Mobile has good reception, which in many places (cities), it does. Your "Perfect" scenario happens to be Austin, and I happen to live there. Therefore, T-Mobile is perfect for me. It sounds like T-Mobile sucks in your area- that's fine, but you don't need to be so butt-hurt over that fact.
at&t also has among the worst customer service in the industry and like I said in the last post, allowed my account to be compromised even with their "security code" arrangement. They didn't even ask for the code to move my SIM card over to the fraudster. Never will do business with them, period.
Edit: Also, upload speeds COMPLETELY are dominated by T-Mobile. at&t never had upload speeds into the 7Mbps range, and I get that regularly on T-Mobile. It's much easier to share photos and videos with T-Mobile.
dosent tmobile use ATT towers so wouldn't it be the same?
It doesnt just "use" them.
A roaming relationship with a tower from AT&T only happens in rural areas on certain towers where there is a roaming agreement.
In a regular city there are T-Mobile towers and you use those, not At&T.
It not like it says hey I have low reception with TMO over here, can I use your towers to roam instead?
It doesnt work like that.
AT&T Scales Back Throttling of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans
I'd gladly pay full price for my next phone if it means I can keep my phone bill at the current grand total of $65 for unlimited data and phone service.
I'd gladly pay full price for my next phone if it means I can keep my phone bill at the current grand total of $65 for unlimited data and phone service.
I happen to be on a 2yr contract with 2 line family plan. One line has unlimited data and another has 200MB data. I pay $105 (50 voice + 30 data + $10 - 2nd line + $15 - 2nd line data) before discount ($91 after discount) and before taxes each month for both lines. I have yet to find a plan in the mobile data share that costs close to that.
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Me too, I have been able to FaceTime since my iPhone 5.
It would be really nice if ATT turned on the Hotspot feature for us Unlimited users.
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When I first signed up for AT&T's unlimited plan it was their most expensive data plan, so for a very long time I was paying more than the rest of you. You can GTFOH with that freeloading nonsense.
Glad I never switched to a new plan, though I was certainly tempted after I kept getting throttled. Maybe some day there will be so few of us and the network will be strong enough that they start to appreciate the loyal customers who have stuck around through all of this BS and give us truly unlimited data with FaceTime and personal hotspot. One can dream....
I don't get the freeloading comment either, you signed up for unlimited amount of data, your now getting a limited amount of data.
Instead of buying garbage like Beats, Apple could have really shaken things up by buying Sprint or Tmobile.
