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Gave my unlimited AT&T plan up

iPads are not contracted, nor are any of them on a family plan. At&t does not have a stared data plan of sorts yet.. if ever....

If I happen to buy someones unlimited data.. its in the best interest of the buyer to take over payments, or they lose the unlimited data.. It would be stupid for the buyer to assume that the seller won't just get that charge reversed, thus making at&t cancel that plan. Just give at&t a reason, and they will cancel....


Rob9874 said:
But the account is still in your name & credit? So you're trusting the buyer to pay the bill on time?

Also, how does this work if you're under contract?

I'm assuming you can't sell your plan if you're on a family plan?
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So does anyone else think this is a super bad idea. You are giving a stranger complete access to an account of yours. Anyone ever hear of social engineering and identity theft. No wonder people are willing to pay 500-700$ for this. They can make a lot more with your information if they wanted to. I really hope that all who have done this got honest buyers...
 
amorcito said:
iPads are not contracted, nor are any of them on a family plan. At&t does not have a stared data plan of sorts yet.. if ever....

If I happen to buy someones unlimited data.. its in the best interest of the buyer to take over payments, or they lose the unlimited data.. It would be stupid for the buyer to assume that the seller won't just get that charge reversed, thus making at&t cancel that plan. Just give at&t a reason, and they will cancel....
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If you on a FAN account you sure can get a plan for you ipad. 2 year deal but discounted at the FAN rate.

The only reason I have not done this is that I expect the next iphone to have LTE and was planning to tether from it.

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fishmd said:
So does anyone else think this is a super bad idea. You are giving a stranger complete access to an account of yours. Anyone ever hear of social engineering and identity theft. No wonder people are willing to pay 500-700$ for this. They can make a lot more with your information if they wanted to. I really hope that all who have done this got honest buyers...
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I believe someone posted a solution earlier in the thread which left no information for the next owner to exploit.
 
amorcito said:
In regards to the recipient, they couldn't use their sim, that's already in their LTE-Ipad for example? What I'm saying is, is there any way around mailing the original sim? I would just drop my "unlimited" coverage on my phone, and use my iPad as the main source of net access.

To those of you out there interested in getting rid of your unlimited iPad data... pm with offers =)
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Honestly, I think all the buyer needs to do is have the login info and login on their iPad. The plan is tied to the account. Ive done that with all of my iPads and my plans have transferred to each one successfully without swapping SIMs. But I don't know how it works if you want to login with someone else's info on your own iPad. Never had to do it.

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Rob9874 said:
But the account is still in your name & credit? So you're trusting the buyer to pay the bill on time?

Also, how does this work if you're under contract?

I'm assuming you can't sell your plan if you're on a family plan?
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The data plan is prepaid, meaning you pay for the month ahead of time. So no contract is needed. I think you can tie it to your AT&T account but there's no need. All you do is put in your credit card info and you're good to go.
 
GraphicsGeek said:
The data plan is prepaid, meaning you pay for the month ahead of time. So no contract is needed. I think you can tie it to your AT&T account but there's no need. All you do is put in your credit card info and you're good to go.
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Gotcha, I was thinking about my iPhone unlimited plan. Guess I wouldn't be able to sell it anyway. Don't feel as bad now.
 
boltjames said:
Stop trying to beat the system, you're going to get the rest of us who are legitimately grandfathered-in with the unlimited data plan in trouble.

Be a man. Let it go. There are other ways to make a few bucks that don't hurt other, honest, people.

BJ
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You sure do like to brag about your unlimited data plan don't you? I have it too, but I don't talk about it daily.
 
Blorzoga said:
Unlimited iPad owners are fooling themselves if they think AT&T will not throttle them. Of course they will.

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Don't be a crybaby.
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AT&T has not throttled for one of a few reasons:
1) Recurring Data Plans are legally different from cellular contracts, possibly legal hurdles prevent the change, unlike cellular contracts that are renewed each year. Change can only be made to the plans they may offer in the future, not to the existing recurring plan.
2) They make more on idle UL data plans with people who retain them for the few times they do vs those who regularly do abuse it.
3) There are fewer iPad UL data plans in existence; therefore, it is unlikely iPads would cripple the network.
4) Apple has a deal worked out with AT&T preventing them from it.
5) AT&T considers any overage of data part of its "subsidy" to the iPad vs phones they have to subsidize.
6) A conspiracy is out there and its AT&T selling SIMs at $500-$600ea on eBay, not disgruntled consumers of data.
 
Bheleu said:
AT&T has not throttled for one of a few reasons:
1) Recurring Data Plans are legally different from cellular contracts, possibly legal hurdles prevent the change, unlike cellular contracts that are renewed each year. Change can only be made to the plans they may offer in the future, not to the existing recurring plan.
2) They make more on idle UL data plans with people who retain them for the few times they do vs those who regularly do abuse it.
3) There are fewer iPad UL data plans in existence; therefore, it is unlikely iPads would cripple the network.
4) Apple has a deal worked out with AT&T preventing them from it.
5) AT&T considers any overage of data part of its "subsidy" to the iPad vs phones they have to subsidize.
6) A conspiracy is out there and its AT&T selling SIMs at $500-$600ea on eBay, not disgruntled consumers of data.
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Dream on. If they wish to throttle, the certainly will.

And if you really think Apple has some deal with AT&T to prevent them from throttling, I would guess it's similar to the "agreement" they had with AT&T to allow the "unlimited" plans to be turned off and then back on as was initially advertised but was quickly yanked by AT&T.
 
fishmd said:
So does anyone else think this is a super bad idea. You are giving a stranger complete access to an account of yours. Anyone ever hear of social engineering and identity theft. No wonder people are willing to pay 500-700$ for this. They can make a lot more with your information if they wanted to. I really hope that all who have done this got honest buyers...
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If you would have read the thread you would have seen multiple posts saying to change the credit card info to a prepaid card with 1 month of service on it. No personal information is being transferred. The data plans on iPads are prepaid so they only need a credit card, not a credit check.
 
Blorzoga said:
Dream on. If they wish to throttle, the certainly will.

And if you really think Apple has some deal with AT&T to prevent them from throttling, I would guess it's similar to the "agreement" they had with AT&T to allow the "unlimited" plans to be turned off and then back on as was initially advertised but was quickly yanked by AT&T.
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Funny. If they wished to throttle it, they certainly would have.

And if you think AT&T's marketing talked to their lawyers, it would not have been offered in the first place. They yanked the deal but kept people who stayed in it because they could not back out, whether Apple was behind it or contract law. Irregardless, this deal is not coming back. I listed possibilities as to why it's still UL - I think it's legal reasons.
 
boltjames said:
You act how you want and I'll act how I want.

I'm unlimited.

BJ
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His bragging isn't limited to his sim, check his signature line.

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Bheleu said:
Funny. If they wished to throttle it, they certainly would have.

And if you think AT&T's marketing talked to their lawyers, it would not have been offered in the first place. They yanked the deal but kept people who stayed in it because they could not back out, whether Apple was behind it or contract law. Irregardless, this deal is not coming back. I listed possibilities as to why it's still UL - I think it's legal reasons.
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Irregardless is not a real word.
 
jdcell100 said:
Had the unlimited AT&T from day one of first iPad bought an AT&T 4g. New iPad I saw no difference in the speed from 3G to 4g. Brought it back for a Verizion now when I do a speed test the needle is buried off the chart speed with Verizion so glade I returned but it would have been nice to see that kind of speed with my unlimited AT&T plan had that from day 1 I'll miss it
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If you just transferred the sim from your old iPad to the new one, then you weren't getting LTE. You have to activate a new microsim with your old account to get unlimited LTE. My guess is you didn't set it up right and thought the AT&T speeds were slow, when in fact you hadn't connected to LTE.

Big mistake bro.
 
Bheleu said:
AT&T has not throttled for one of a few reasons:
1) Recurring Data Plans are legally different from cellular contracts, possibly legal hurdles prevent the change, unlike cellular contracts that are renewed each year. Change can only be made to the plans they may offer in the future, not to the existing recurring plan.
2) They make more on idle UL data plans with people who retain them for the few times they do vs those who regularly do abuse it.
3) There are fewer iPad UL data plans in existence; therefore, it is unlikely iPads would cripple the network.
4) Apple has a deal worked out with AT&T preventing them from it.
5) AT&T considers any overage of data part of its "subsidy" to the iPad vs phones they have to subsidize.
6) A conspiracy is out there and its AT&T selling SIMs at $500-$600ea on eBay, not disgruntled consumers of data.
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ATT has already set the LTE throttle limit to 5GB. I suspect that we will soon see tons of threads moaning about ipad throttling.

I dont support ATT in this at all, its just the reality of where things are going. ATT knows the ipad is quickly becoming a data hungry device with the addition of LTE and they will want to cash in on that.

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boltjames said:
You act how you want and I'll act how I want.

I'm unlimited.

BJ
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You're quite annoying in this regard.

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Bheleu said:
Funny. If they wished to throttle it, they certainly would have.

And if you think AT&T's marketing talked to their lawyers, it would not have been offered in the first place. They yanked the deal but kept people who stayed in it because they could not back out, whether Apple was behind it or contract law. Irregardless, this deal is not coming back. I listed possibilities as to why it's still UL - I think it's legal reasons.
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FYI....this is not a word ----> Irregardless

Its "regardless" or "irrespective"
 
ZipZap said:
ATT has already set the LTE throttle limit to 5GB. I suspect that we will soon see tons of threads moaning about ipad throttling.

I dont support ATT in this at all, its just the reality of where things are going. ATT knows the ipad is quickly becoming a data hungry device with the addition of LTE and they will want to cash in on that.

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You're quite annoying in this regard.

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FYI....this is not a word ----> Irregardless

Its "regardless" or "irrespective"
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No they have not, LTE iPad GF UL data remains Unthrottled. Stop repeating iPhone throttle limits and saying it is for the iPad. Repeating it will not make it so.
 
Honestly, the vast majority of people with unlimited ATT iPad data plans ($30) do not use more than 2 GB a month.

And you have to keep paying month after month. My friend down in Miami keeps paying for unlimited data and he uses about 1GB each month. It's a waste of money if you don't use it.

Why pay $360 a year to use data you don't really need. Psychological? Maybe you will eventually need it for a rainy day?

But if you have access to wifi, and those times you need to travel, just pay for the $30/3GB data plan and pay $10 extra per GB when you need it.

Financially does not make sense to keep paying if you don't use it to the max.
Especially since ATT does not offer the hotspot option.

I guess you could sell the unlimited SIM and profit.

.....but I got something much better than an unlimited ATT SIM

I've got the unlimited Verizon LTE SIM!! with the hotspot. Because Verizon doesn't audit people who put their phone LTE SIM into any Verizon "certified" LTE device.
 
RCtennis3811 said:
There is no throttle limit for iPads. There may be in the future, but that's just speculation on everyone's part. How is this so hard to understand that the throttle policy is for smartphones!?!

http://www.att.com/esupport/datausage.jsp?source=IZDUel1160000000U
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It's because people don't read. The original unlimited plans had a fine print saying streaming was prohibited. People ignored it, streamed gigs and gigs of video over CELLULAR, and forced AT&T to kill the option for everyone.

So now stream all you want. For $10/GB.
 
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