Are you assuming the new iPhone won't be LTE? Or perhaps ppl switching won't buy an LTE device?
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AT&T Won't Charge for FaceTime Over Cellular, Will Require New Mobile Share Plan
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Are you assuming the new iPhone won't be LTE? Or perhaps ppl switching won't buy an LTE device?
Yes, my comment was only related to Face Time though.
Of course whatever plan works best is what people should do.
I have 4 iphones on my account, so I will check out if the shared plan makes sense .
This attitude violates MR standards of behavior. Analyzing facts and making a decision that benefits you is frowned upon, at least based on this thread. Rather, you must immediately condemn AT&T as greedy, unfair, and any other epithet you can think of or create. Changes like this must benefit all or they can benefit no one.
The ONLY reason AT&T is able to block Facetime on the iPhone is because Apple gave them that power.
Otherwise it'd just be another data stream.
This attitude violates MR standards of behavior. Analyzing facts and making a decision that benefits you is frowned upon, at least based on this thread. Rather, you must immediately condemn AT&T as greedy, unfair, and any other epithet you can think of or create. Changes like this must benefit all or they can benefit no one.
BS...if AT&T forced me to a shared plan, but offered a more reasonable charge per GB of data, I might moan a little, but nothing like I'm saying here. Both AT&t and Verizon are hiking up their per GB charge more than their current plans with limits.
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It's most likely a requirement of their contract. I'm sure Apple is not allowed to just release features that could affect the network w/o AT&T getting to approve it.
WTF are you talking about? Did you read any of the posts (including mine) about filing a complaint with the FCC? People discussing the financial impact (good/bad) on their monthly cell is somehow non-productive?
So are you going to just cry about people discussing this topic on a forum, or do you have ANY constructive suggestions on action to take, or are you just going to continue to ridicule others?
Well....?
Yup, just what I thought. Another internet tough guy. Put up or shut up and go away. If you worked for my company you would be on my short list of expendable staff due to your hostile and non-constructive attitude.
Never mind. I forgot myself. The only acceptable response is to pile on AT&T. I will leave this thread to such posters. Bye.
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Good point. I'm still hoping we will get to keep our unlimited as they allowed the last time I was moved from Edge to 3G.
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I'm just saying that since the majority of AT&T customers cannot access LTE, then I would think that they would not charge customers for a service their customers cannot access. LTE was released in 10 cities last summer, yet there was no extra charge for those customers that had 4G devices which could access that service. I am still thinking that AT&T is not at the point where they would start forcing people off of an unlimited plan to a LTE plan because LTE is still not as widely available.
Aaannnd.. AT&T just disabled my iPhone's 3G/4G since I went over the 3GB "limit" on my unlimited plan.
So you only have an E icon displayed?Aaannnd.. AT&T just disabled my iPhone's 3G/4G since I went over the 3GB "limit" on my unlimited plan.
Aaannnd.. AT&T just disabled my iPhone's 3G/4G since I went over the 3GB "limit" on my unlimited plan.
As I understand it, there is a "soft" limit on unlimited plans that varies by market. It's not really unlimited in the purest since of the word.
Look at the bright side, before I worked for AT&T I had a Verizon unlimited plan. When I went over, they canceled my my account without warning. Which is the actually reason that I hate Verizon to this day.
It still shows 4G and shows a full signal, however they sent me a text message saying I've been throttled. I can't load any webpages since they just time out. Speedtest says I am getting 0.01Mbps downsteam. This is worse than E.
Then they haven't disabled anything.It still shows 4G and shows a full signal, however they sent me a text message saying I've been throttled. I can't load any webpages since they just time out. Speedtest says I am getting 0.01Mbps downsteam. This is worse than E.
You're simply been throttled.
The 0.01Mbps is suspect though as even the throttled speed is faster than that.
They are supposed to be giving you speeds in similar to EDGE, not dial up.
I would call and complain.
I have unlimited data and could care less what you think.
Im not slowing you down, Im just using what I am entitled to use, being that I pay for it.
Even better is I just signed up for ATT Feb 2011 as a new customer and got unlimited data
Gotta love the ld iPhone 2g unlimited data trick
Wait, you could care less? And did the thought ever occur to you that what you are entitled to use may be slowing us down? I don't care if you pay $1M per month for it, but you are slowing people down if you use a lot of data. I don't really care if I'm slowed down since I actually want mine to be slower anyway.
No way !
I'm not paying a single dime extra for nonsense! AT&T has a horrible data speed it's not consistent I can't imagine how bad Facetime over HSPA+ will perform!
I'm not paying a single dime extra for nonsense! AT&T has a horrible data speed it's not consistent I can't imagine how bad Facetime over HSPA+ will perform!
I'm going to have to disagree. I think Mr Jobs set the precedent by doing just the opposite. He allowed AT&T to push him around and disable technology, such as tethering, by disallowing it through the app store.
Uh, 100 devices? I guess your math ranks right there with your intelligence! The plans are not intended for 1-3 devices, but primarily for 3+ devices. Again read, rather than hate out of ignorance!
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Again! The is not designed or people with 1-3 devices. LOL, speaking of the ignorance I was talking about!
So nothing in the way of constructive thinking except to tell people there's nothing they can do about it, except roll over and let a corporation tell you what you can do with data bandwidth/capacity that you already paid for soley to get you to change your contract with them? Is that all you have? Is that the Liberty you refer to in your sig?
17 out of 19 people at my firm are on an unlimited data plan. Only 1 of them has used over 2 GB of data.