But then the price of gas or some other goods or services in Italy or somewhere else in Europe (or somewhere in the world) seems outrages compared to what it is in the US. Basically doesn't mean much one way or another.
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Data Plan Comparison: Unlimited Options From T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint
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Deprioritization in major metro areas - The restaurant is usually very crowded during breakfast, lunch, and dinner time, when you're most likely to be hungry, so you're likely to get slow service unless you decide to have dinner at 3AM.
And yet we all somehow manage to somehow get by and have our breakfast lunch and dinner everyday nonetheless.
They're acting like they have the undisputedly best network in the country when that is demonstrably false. Recent nationwide test results from OpenSignal revealed that T-Mobile service is better than AT&T's in almost every category and every region.
It's also important to note that T-Mobile's 3G speeds far outmatch Verizon's whenever 4G/LTE isn't available.
https://opensignal.com/reports/2017/02/usa/state-of-the-mobile-network/
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Could you give me more details on that because the Verizon representative explained it the way I said it. To which I felt costed way too much for service. I'm trying to bring a family of 4 to verizon.
In South Florida, my AT&T data is virtually unusable during morning and evening rush hour.
This is in relation to being on the new unlimited plan and already being deprioritized?
If one paid for a line with data they should be able to use it in any smartphone,tablet or car that they wish to use it in. To lock it to one device and charge extra to use in each other device is ripping people off and unethical. If you paid for 5GB of data you shoud be able to use those 5GB in any device that is unlocked. Those that have not traveled abroad though do not know any better. If I have two smartphones, an iPad, a laptop and a cell in May car I should not need to buy 3-5 different lines or pay extra to use what I had already bought and paid for to use.
When you are a tourist arriving in Hong Kong,Thailand or China and you buy a SIM card with 5GB of data they do not tell you that you could only use that card in one device and block the SIM card from being used in other devices. Reminds me of the day that Samsung got Shi* for locking their smartphones to one region for that SIM card. People that travel and wish to change SIM cards were pissed. Just imagine Apple locking their smartphones and Google locking theirs so that they can only be used with 1 provider in one country. What then when you travel...? Buy a new SIM card with a special line along with a new smartphone...?
I just switched from AT&T (15 years with them) to T-Mobile. The SIM card currently is on special for $0.99.
A fracrion of unlimeyed, how does that work? IIRC infinity/(any number) is still infinity, so unless there are limits in this unlimited plans (scumbag advertising) how can you ever calculate what fratrion of unlimited 5GB will be?
Ps I'm not trolling, just curious
At&t's Cricket prepaid does it for $65. Never understood why one would be with at&t, when really it is the exact same thing. Technically it's capped at some imaginary speed compared to their other LTE, but I don't see it. I watch high def Netflix, Spotify and browse etc and never seem like it isn't LTE. 40+gb used a month for almost a year straight...
I guess my family isn't normal. I have 4 lines and between us all we used over 90GB of data last month haha. No thanks to capped data.
Okay let's play the dumb analogy game once again. So the restaurant is busy but has also agreed to give you two meals a day as quickly as anybody else. So they inform you if you want to eat 4 meals a day some may not be available at peak times. You could either stop being a glutton and save some of those meals or ... i won't bother continuing with this.
These analogies always get so twisted and convoluted that it becomes embarrassing that grown people speak like this to eachvother.
LOL! You forgot taxes and fees. CHECK: http://www.actwireless.org/taxes-and-fees/state-tax-rankings/
In the area where I live it amounts to more than 18%.
For my use case: state: 11.70% federal: 6.64% Total 18.34%
I use T-Mobile Pre-Paid (with the so-called the "Walmart plan", but never have placed footprint either digitally or physically on Walmart): $30-month, no fees no taxes.
With unlimited Data (5G LTE) with tethering, 100 minutes cellular calling with WiFi Calling, Unlimited Text, free 480p video and music streaming. (In my use case I never use the cellular calling minutes.)
That alone, not including about 18% taxes, is a savings for my use case of ($80-$30=$50)x12=$600 per-year. With taxes $600+.18x$80x12=$773 (approx.)
LOL!
That and the fact that they can cut all of these prices in half and not throttle people. All of these companies SAY that there networks are the best but overall they can't handle the traffic, so they charge more for updating there infrastructure "maybe not the best way to say it" but anyways they charge more to improve the "network" but the network never improves and you still get charged more.
Its amazing at how far behind outdated however you want to say it American Cellular is behind the times and with all the money that these companies have.
Corporate GREED
ahh i can finally stop holding onto my ATT grandfathered unlimited data plan for dear life and JUMP SHIP! I tried out the T-Mobile network around where I live in CT and it's more than adequate and actually impressive. My 2-line (with FAN discount of 20%) $141 ATT bill (soon to be $146 after another stupid $5 increase) will be $100 taxes included with T-Mobile for 2 lines (and I'll get tethering for the first time ever!), and I may get 2 more people to join me to make them all $40 a month....I am going to save either $552 or $792 a year on 2 lines....thank you T-Mobile, and BYE BYE AT&T, you no longer go beyond the call for me!
I have 6 smart phones on my plan. I have a 30GB plan and I manage to stay under. I will also, somewhat agree with you on the 5GB per month. But, in my opinion, that's an average. Of the 6 smart phones, 3 of them use anywhere between 7-10, while the other 3 only use < 1GB total. So, I get your point, but it's not always the case.
There is already a bouquet of laws and regulations on the books to do this. That is why all the fine print is so specific. We don't need more. That just makes things more expensive and not less confusing. But if it's confusing to a consumer then he or she needs to do their due diligence and ask questions before signing the dotted line. Half the problem is that consumers do not bother to educate themselves before buying something. Ever read some of the asinine product reviews on Amazon?
I wonder why so many people are arguing about throttling. I been using Sprint's 'unlimited' family plan for years and besides their bad coverage, I've never to made it to that point of slower speeds.
I compared what I have now with ATT and going to their unliminted plan. While the costs would be similar, one thing I noticed is this new unlimited plan does not include Personal Hotspots. That's a deal killer.
Correct. T-Mobile is 2 for $100 on the unlimited plan right now, or if you turn on Kickback and use less than 2 GB of data per month per line, you could get two $10 discounts, bringing you down to $80.