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AT&T Won't Charge for FaceTime Over Cellular, Will Require New Mobile Share Plan
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REMEBER the iPhone sucks on Sprint and Verizon ... For now at least I don't see it getting any better on Sprint. Verzion has a better chance of improving the next iPhone on its service .
I dont think its a big enough issue for people to jump ship to other carriers, people will just switch plans or just not use it over 3G
I will just jailbreak in order to FaceTime over 3G
I will just jailbreak in order to FaceTime over 3G
I could live with leaving an unlimited plan for this, but it's crazy to require their share plan if you only have one device. My $80 plan will increase a huge amount just for 3G FaceTime.
Right now I am considering leaving the deathstar, but I need good national coverage, so I am investigating switching to big red.
Right now I am considering leaving the deathstar, but I need good national coverage, so I am investigating switching to big red.
Yes, LTE the limit is 5gb before throttling. And for all the people willing to leave over Facetime, really? Do you use it that much? And going to Verizon doesn't make sense, because they only have the share plan, the same thing you don't want. At least AT&T is letting people keep their old plan, and unlimited, if they want. I could care less about Facetime. It doesn't even work properly over wifi for me sometimes. I'll use Skype and keep my unlimited data.
Well thats good news then even though that At&t guy lied to me, but what else is new.
He was pushing this new shared plan pretty heavy too.
Are you really gonna be one of those people. Samsung is a good company. Stop buying the apple hype. And guess what your iphone is more than 50% samsung parts as well. The Galaxy nexus is not at all an iphone copy.
+1. How bout anyone that bought an iPhone at 3G or something very new just can't use it at all. They have to wait until the users like myself that have been onboard since version 1 and grandfathered in on AT&T "unlimited" decide we no longer want an iPhone and now you can proceed. Do you have any idea the amount of data I paid for and did NOT get a chance to use?
You go to Straight Talk.
Same AT&T towers, same "4G" HSPA+ connection at a fraction of the price. No international roaming, no Visual Voicemail, no amenities like AT&T WiFi hotspots, microcells. Some things like streaming video and tethering are explicit violations of the Straight Talk terms of service and their "unlimited data" is really 2GB.
All US mobile operators suck, so you might as well just consider them all as dumb pipes and get something cheap.
And if you're looking for a cheap dumb pipe, Straight Talk is a serious contender.
Thanks for the laugh.
Back at you. I guess you think it's better to stay uneducated, be a compliant consumer robot, and just roll over and do nothing?
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Thank you for the link! It's great to see constructive effort rather than hearing sheeple tell you to do whatever your told by some corporation.
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where's the lov?
Lots of post here claim they are moving to Sprint, well sayonara, before you go I would check on the Sprint network capabilities first. Slow
For me Im moving to the 1 gb plan with discount will cost me about $90 month saving me $30 per month. iPhone4S/iPad.
review of my data usage will be less than both devices uses. Facetime usage based on 5 minutes/15mb may on occasion cause me to buy 1 gb more for a whopping $15.
The Mobile Data Plan is an improvement over my existing plan by heaps and bounds.
BTW how many of these posts are from Sprint/Verizon Customers/employees?
Lots of post here claim they are moving to Sprint, well sayonara, before you go I would check on the Sprint network capabilities first. Slow
For me Im moving to the 1 gb plan with discount will cost me about $90 month saving me $30 per month. iPhone4S/iPad.
review of my data usage will be less than both devices uses. Facetime usage based on 5 minutes/15mb may on occasion cause me to buy 1 gb more for a whopping $15.
The Mobile Data Plan is an improvement over my existing plan by heaps and bounds.
BTW how many of these posts are from Sprint/Verizon Customers/employees?
This, but lets be honest...for all the 350+ posts of bitching and moaning, 5% of them will actually switch. I have zero issues with ATT's service in my area and the data bucket would cost me about the same.....I'd like to go somewhere cheaper but Sprint (from what I am told) is not too good in metro Phoenix.
I'd go T-Mo but I have doubts they will get the iPhone at this point...
Total B.S.
I see that you have drunk deeply of the "free market" wine, so I assume that there is no dissuading you about how wrong you are about the consequences of government regulation vs. so-called free market capitalism...
But even a cursory reading of the history of U.S. deregulation offers up multiple examples of how deregulation has been disastrous for consumers and often the industries. Airline companies are probably the best example but let's not forget the financial collapse of 2008... In fact, there is not one example of industry deregulation that benefited consumers, increased innovation and lowered prices. Not one example, period.
The reason that European cell phone plans are more customer-friendly than U.S. plans is government regulation. If they were left to their own devices like American companies we would see the same kind of price gouging and poor customer service as in the U.S. But since European cell phone companies are prohibited from locking-in consumers via contracts they can only compete for customers by offering lower prices and better customer service. (There are additional regulations that level the playing field on behalf of consumers.)
I see that you have drunk deeply of the "free market" wine, so I assume that there is no dissuading you about how wrong you are about the consequences of government regulation vs. so-called free market capitalism...
But even a cursory reading of the history of U.S. deregulation offers up multiple examples of how deregulation has been disastrous for consumers and often the industries. Airline companies are probably the best example but let's not forget the financial collapse of 2008... In fact, there is not one example of industry deregulation that benefited consumers, increased innovation and lowered prices. Not one example, period.
The reason that European cell phone plans are more customer-friendly than U.S. plans is government regulation. If they were left to their own devices like American companies we would see the same kind of price gouging and poor customer service as in the U.S. But since European cell phone companies are prohibited from locking-in consumers via contracts they can only compete for customers by offering lower prices and better customer service. (There are additional regulations that level the playing field on behalf of consumers.)
I seriously don't want to switch plans because I'm grandfathered etc... But I'll at least look at what the new plans are in comparison to my current plan with unlimited data. I know the VZW plans are $20/mo more + tax. So if it's like that then there's no way I'm switching.
the european plans are just as greedy as the US ones. they just give you more choice in your mix of minutes/text/data. once you compare the same plans and factor in VAT the price is about the same.
you can get a lot cheaper in the USA too, just buy your own phone and go prepaid. as low as $30 a month from some carriers
Verizon violated this net neutrality for a full year on it's LTE network and got away with it. Look it up on Google.
http://monsterdesignstudios.com/verizon_scandal/
First off, I'm the kind of 'You betray me, I'm done with you forever' kind of guy.
That being said, it's not about the whole "Samsung vs Apple" debate. I never liked their products. The first Samsung product I ever owned was a CRT back in 1998. Couldn't hook the Nintendo 64 I got for my birthday up to it (11 year old me was pissed, to say the least). Second product of theirs I owned was a flip phone. Damn thing would randomly freeze mid-text. One of the times it did it went and erased everything from the phone itself. Contacts, pictures, everything. Ever since then Samsung products are nothing more than garbage to me.
And Samsung isn't the only company I personally boycott. Sony removing my software-based backward compatibility AND OtherOS (Both of which I used) made me rage quit them. The Burger King across the street from the Everett Mall served me a partially frozen chicken sandwich once. It's not about the Apple hype. I'm not going on and on and on saying nobody should ever buy from Samsung, Sony, or Burger King. I'm saying that, to me, those companies are garbage, and they're not getting my direct business.
Its not right to hold grudges especially ones about a product you bought 15 years ago and one of the various flip phones they made ages ago. The samsung galaxy nexus is not garbage. Its one of the top rated phones period.
Oh dear. The financial issues of 2008 were due to the Federal Reserve. Please, do yourself a favor and educate yourself on this subject. Here's a good start:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sabrin/sabrin11.html
My point is that I'm happy with what I have now, and I haven't been happy with what I've had in the past. Nothing wrong with that logic.