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ZBoater said:
I'm sorry if this comes as a surprise to some, but capped cellular data plans and media streaming just don't mix. You bought a SmartCar and want to tow a trailer. The solution is simple. Don't stream. :rolleyes:
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I'm sorry, but your argument doesn't apply in the us anymore since carriers stopped offering unlimited data plans and only offer capped plans. Your only choice here now is to get a capped plan. Using your argument, it would be akin to all motor companies no longer selling anything possible of towing and only selling smartcars in the US.
 
Scuba-EMT said:
2.3 GB down
118 MB up

Fairly normal for me...

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Settings, usage, cellular data, that will give you your usage
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Do you have to tap "Reset Statistics" at the end of your billing cycle? I have 5.8gb with 4 days left in my billing cycle. I haven't tapped reset, so if it doesn't reset to 0 automatically, then my usage is for 2 months.
 
Neokiller309 said:
I'm sorry, but your argument doesn't apply in the us anymore since carriers stopped offering unlimited data plans and only offer capped plans. Your only choice here now is to get a capped plan. Using your argument, it would be akin to all motor companies no longer selling anything possible of towing and only selling smartcars in the US.
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Nevermind
 
iPad 2: 0MB used out of 2,048 MB with 31 days left :D

iPhone 3GS: 129.7 MB used out of 2,048 MB with 7 days left

Home wifi: 57.90 GB used out of 250 GB with 3 days left
 
tmarks11 said:
Only my opinion, but I feel people streaming 15+ gb a month are abusng their service. I strongly believe if a lot of folks hadn't gone crazy with the AT&T unlimited right out of the gate, maybe ATT wouldn't have dropped the plan so fast.

Another way to abuse the service: jailbreak, and use your iPad as a hot spot for all the other computers in your house, racking up unbelievable data usage.

No guilt, only the feeling of being responsible for my actions. If I go to a buffet, I don't pig out just because it says "all you can eat".
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No, AT&T would have dropped the unlimited data plan regardless.

AT&T said:
June 02, 2010
Currently, 65 percent of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 200 MB of data per month on average.

Currently, 98 percent of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 2 GB of data a month on average.
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http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=17991&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=30854

Straight from the horses mouth. Note the date, this is before they started to throttle.

So if only 2% use more than 2gb monthly, how exactly is unlimited data being abused? 15+gb a month is nothing.

"Bandwidth is simply a measure of the amount of data that can be transmitted through a connection over a given amount of time."

So your abusive example of 15+gb/month turns out to be 0.75 mbps. Hardly any abuse IMO.

Don't even get me started on tethering. It's simply enabling the device, which already has the ability by design, to share the data service that you are paying for, unlimited or tiered. Are you not allowed to have more than one home phone, utilizing the same number? Are you not allowed to have more than one light bulb in your household? Are you not allowed to have more than one computer on your home Internet?

Being required to pay extra to allow that service is a clear restriction of use. Use of the service that you are already paying for. This is pretty much the wireless provider double dipping into your $$$ pockets. I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action lawsuit brought up against it yet.

You may not pig out at a "all u can eat" buffet but there are others who require and consume more food than you no? As equal paying customers, are they not entitled to eat more than average?
 
Neokiller309 said:
I'm sorry, but your argument doesn't apply in the us anymore since carriers stopped offering unlimited data plans and only offer capped plans. Your only choice here now is to get a capped plan. Using your argument, it would be akin to all motor companies no longer selling anything possible of towing and only selling smartcars in the US.
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So what's your point? :confused:

Yes, they stopped selling it (except Sprint). So no, no towing unless you are prepared to pay $10/GB. If you have deep pockets, you can stream over cellular all you want. You just have to pay for it.
 
I use under 2GB per month on the IPad and less on the IPhone. Have unlimited plans on both. I don't watch TV or play games, but I do check half a dozen email accounts, watch stocks, and check several boards that interest me. I use it as much as I want, it just is nothing like some of the figures I've seen.

Then again, I am an old guy.
 
My last bill had me at just over 1GB. That's just when I'm out and about since I'm almost always connected to wifi at home (and sometimes at the businesses I frequent).
 
used 373.3mb out of 500 and got 12 days to go... gotta limit myself, this is as unlimited as you can get in DK for a tablet.
 
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iCrosoft said:
Are you on AT&T?

I find it odd that some people feel guilty for legally using a service that they are paying for. That's like paying for cable tv and limiting yourself to a few shows a day because you "don't want to abuse it".

You as a consumer have rights, exercise them; otherwise companies will take advantage of you and they feel absolutely no guilt in doing so. A company is just that, an entity; it has no feelings.

The only way one would be abusing the service is if the contract is for personal use and it was being utilized for commercial purposes.
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You're the reason the CEO of AT&T said he regretted giving unlimited data. If you have wifi available use it, don't run up the GBs on cellular just because you can.
 
thenumbersrbad said:
You're the reason the CEO of AT&T said he regretted giving unlimited data. If you have wifi available use it, don't run up the GBs on cellular just because you can.
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You're allowed to run up the GBs "just because you can" when you pay additional for it. Think long and hard about that one.

The CEO of AT&T would be EXHILARATED if the customers on their tiered plans used 30Gb a month and ended up paying $300 in doing so. So it's taboo for a customer with a unlimited data plan to use any more than their illegal cap of 3GB? But it's perfectly OK for a tiered customer to use and pay a ridiculous amount of money to "run up the GBs on cellular"?

You're the reason AT&T, Verizon, and other companies favor tiered data plans. A tiered data plan is basically a company's excuse to increase their profits at a loss to the consumer. Why should they continue to offer unlimited data when consumers are willing to pay the same amount of money for tiered data that has a limit on the average monthly bandwidth? Then lay blame to the top 5% of "data hogs" and penalize them for their right to usage. How is that fair????

Seriously, it's like a cable tv company limiting the hours of tv you're allowed to watch. How absurd is that?

Unlimited data, cellular and broadband, should be available to ALL at a fair/affordable flat rate.
 
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In the long run, the carriers will make more money with cheaper data plans that a lot of people sign up for as opposed to very expensive plans that only a handful of people sign up for. They are currently trying to discover the magic price point at which the majority of the population will be willing to add a data plan when they need it.

That point I believe will be somewhere around $15 for 5GB of data and twice that for 10GB. It could be 5 years or more before we get there though and the iPads we have now will be long gone.
 
CBSNEWS said:
7. Verizon; Federal income tax: negative $705 million ; Subsidiaries in tax havens: 0
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505144_162-36945095/top-25-corporate-tax-dodgers/

2011flyer_taxes.pdf

http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/you_paid_federal_income_taxes._why_didnt_verizon/#.T7-n1xB5mSM

FORBES said:
The only one of the 20 corporate giants with a lower tax rate was AT&T, at -6.4%
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http://www.forbes.com/2011/04/13/ge-exxon-walmart-apple-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html

Talk about abuse.
 
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Ok, possibly dumb questions, but how are you guys getting unlimited data? Are you not in the States? I'm on Verizon and would love unlimited but that's not an option.
 
the reason why carriers say the average person doesnt go over 2gb is because they are unable to without excessive overage charges.
 
New iPad AT&T (unlimited LTE plan) 3-4 GB / mo, but no LTE in my area.
Verizon iPhone 4S (unlimited 3G) 1.5-2.0 GB / mo

I don't abuse it.
 
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