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You don't have to come and confess, we looking for you. We gonna find you. We gonna find you. Go and tell that. Go and tell that. homeboy.
I went past the 1 gb mark for the first time last month.... I have a question for all the people that stream radio for hours and hours through the day (assuming you have an iphone)
Don't you have a big collection of musics in your itunes already?
why wouldn't you just pick songs you like that are on your list that you can pick instead of randomly hearing songs on a radio station that you might have already?
there is a shuffle button for that
just curious...
I pay for all my music, either via CD (old days) or digital downloads. I've got just under 1100 tunes in my iTunes music folder. They are mostly my favorites but there are many others I'll hear on XM or Sirius and tell myself I'd like to go buy but neglect to do so (forgetting them later, etc.).
For me, and I'm sure I'm not alone, having Pandora or similar is a really nice way to enjoy tunes when you don't own them. I'm betting that there are just as many, if not MORE people, who have huge iTunes libraries full of pirated music and they likely wouldn't appreciate services like Pandora.
Still, I play Pandora a lot during the week and I seldom blow past the 1G mark in any given month. I just use WiFi a lot.
So what you're saying is:
Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake!
You sir drank my milkshake.
FANTASTIC reference. This is really what its all about. People don't tend to realize that we are still sharing bandwidth at the pipe.
this is all BS, At&t terms fir wireless clearly state over 5gb a month can be considered abuse.
I have read it today and posted it on the forums
no matter what plan you have.
they can choose to flag your account and then send a threatening letter.
They can fire you as a customer.
they can charge you as per your contract.
You are no different then the girl who downloaded music on torrents and then cried when she got caught and had a judgment for thousands of dollars.
You DL movies and other and use 10's of GB of Data At&t may catch up with you and if they do I will laugh because you have posted how much they wont.
If they don't then good for you, you won the Russian roulette game.
I have read it today and posted it on the forums
no matter what plan you have.
they can choose to flag your account and then send a threatening letter.
They can fire you as a customer.
they can charge you as per your contract.
You are no different then the girl who downloaded music on torrents and then cried when she got caught and had a judgment for thousands of dollars.
You DL movies and other and use 10's of GB of Data At&t may catch up with you and if they do I will laugh because you have posted how much they wont.
If they don't then good for you, you won the Russian roulette game.
I love these comments
This is BS you said, like all these people making things up.
They can fire you as a customer? lol
Are you talking legitimately or with a jb tethering program?
I use 8-10GB from listening to streaming music on Pandora.
ETA: I listen to ambient and electronica on streaming, because I don't know the artists well.
I use 8-10GB from listening to streaming music on Pandora.
ETA: I listen to ambient and electronica on streaming, because I don't know the artists well.
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I love these comments
This is BS you said, like all these people making things up.
They can fire you as a customer? lol
Its BS that they are using 90GB a month and will get away with it forever.
(If they do then great! but I doubt it)
Yes At&t states in the TOS they can fire you, charge you a fine and if you do not pay it will go on your credit report. Just try them.
The letters that have been going out over the last 6 months
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=12184152&posted=1#post12184152
I have never gotten one (Thank God) I came close to the 5Gb one month.
Got my Verizon iPhone on launch shipment date. Since then I have used Skype at an average of 4 hours a day (I literally fall asleep on Skype as I have no other way to stay in touch for so long with my wife; I should also mention that it's not just a skype call, it's the Skype video call on the iPhone to her iPod Touch 4G), I receive an average of 20-30 MB in attachments a day due to work emails and I do a lot of browsing and app downloading. According to my About tab under Settings I have used 447.7 MB so far in data.
As immature as this may sound, I have gotta sing this:
To the window
To the wall
To the OP down my ****
That's some bull **** man, thats some bull ****
(I'm probably going to in time out for this)
As immature as this may sound, I have gotta sing this:
To the window
To the wall
To the OP down my ****
That's some bull **** man, thats some bull ****
(I'm probably going to in time out for this)
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The way i look at it, the OP mentioned the phone call lady went off for a few minutes, probably to talk to her manager/supervisor - the OP is paying $200 for something that costs AT&T small amounts because the infrastructure is already in place, his bill every month makes it worthwhile, especially if they take the chance that the OP is going to be a customer for years on end - if i was cut off from AT&T i would move straight over to Verizon (if i was in the US, i'm in the UK) and 7MB is more than fast enough to rack up 90GB. My **** 2MB connection at home can rack up well over 100GB on a DSL line that warrants a cease and desist letter from BT
My usage varies. My highest was I think 12GB, but it's pretty much legit usage.
I have tethered without a plan, but usually at most 200MB for the entire month. Load a web page, etc..
The bulk of my data is pandora, netflix, radiobox and some transfers through goodreader.
I'm on the unlimited plan, so that's how I use it.
This month though with about 10 days to go, I'm at about 1.3GB. Last month did 6GB.
I have tethered without a plan, but usually at most 200MB for the entire month. Load a web page, etc..
The bulk of my data is pandora, netflix, radiobox and some transfers through goodreader.
I'm on the unlimited plan, so that's how I use it.
This month though with about 10 days to go, I'm at about 1.3GB. Last month did 6GB.
I use about 4GB a month. This month I have really backed off haven't had time to watch Netflix like I usually do.
SO did you get a letter?
Its people like you who cause the rest of us to suffer.
SO did you get a letter?
Its people like you who cause the rest of us to suffer.
People like us don't suffer b/c of him
They suffer b/c AT&T sees people like him and knows that they can scare everyone by claiming that UNLESS people like him are stopped, our service will be crippled!
Then they put in caps at 2gb which...solve nothing other than AT&T getting more money
AT&T wants money with the caps. Not to stop heavy users.
I just can't imagine what you guys are doing to use the amounts of data some of you mentioned.
I like to tether in an emergency, but I cannot imagine using AT&T for a regular Internet connection. It's just not fast enough, and even with HSPA+, it has a visible latency.
But it's great in an emergency.
The most I can recall ever using is 1.3GB in one billing period, so I didn't really care about stepping "down" to a 4GB that I'm still not going to use.
I like to tether in an emergency, but I cannot imagine using AT&T for a regular Internet connection. It's just not fast enough, and even with HSPA+, it has a visible latency.
But it's great in an emergency.
The most I can recall ever using is 1.3GB in one billing period, so I didn't really care about stepping "down" to a 4GB that I'm still not going to use.
90GB on a phone? I call BS there. I don't care how many videos you stream/download. A normal video file is around 700MB. Theres no way you're downloading 90+ movies a month. And streaming.. I stream/download all day on my home internet (75GB limit) and I have not reached even 75% of that. (4 people also using the same internet) Unless you provide proof, you're just another one of those liars that claims to use 90+ GB of data.
Your logic is severely flawed here. 90+GB is understandable and perfectly feasible if you download HD movies, etc. The normal video file is around 700mb? Sure, if you don't care about quality. A good Blu-Ray rip can average between 10-27 GB alone.
Just because you don't see the applications of 90GB of data does not give you the right to call someone a liar. The internet gives people like you a sense of unjustified worth by being able to sit in your room, alone, and act like you own the place.
I'm at 68.43GB right now, and its only the 19th of the month. And thats with not tethering everyday.
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I'm sorry but if you use 68GB of data on your PHONE, there is something wrong with you. And I can call someone a liar if I want too. Way to many people claim to use massive amounts of data. Such as a post claiming he used 180GB of data. I'll believe that when I see it. Also, for all I know, this picture could be fake and not even be yours.
I use my phone a normal amount and I've never gone over 1GB.. So for you to use 68GB... People like you are what made companies remove the unlimited data plan.
Wirelessly posted (Verizon iPhone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_6 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8E200 Safari/6533.18.5)
I just got my iPhone on Saturday and I've already used 800 megabytes of data. I used Skype mainly on wifi and only used it on 3G once. I do have 3G enabled for FaceTime and hardly used it (only once). I tested out MyWi just to see if it worked used it for no longer than 10 minutes. I do watch a couple YouTube videos in HD because of My3G. Should I turn off MY3G? Can all this add up to 800 megabytes in 4-5 days?
I just got my iPhone on Saturday and I've already used 800 megabytes of data. I used Skype mainly on wifi and only used it on 3G once. I do have 3G enabled for FaceTime and hardly used it (only once). I tested out MyWi just to see if it worked used it for no longer than 10 minutes. I do watch a couple YouTube videos in HD because of My3G. Should I turn off MY3G? Can all this add up to 800 megabytes in 4-5 days?