How about when they charge like $1.95 per beverage and thats on each cup you get and not a one time unlimited refil fee.
So you get unlimited food for like $10 but the soda's cost you like $6![]()
Yes! Fail fail fail... Good point, my friend.
How about when they charge like $1.95 per beverage and thats on each cup you get and not a one time unlimited refil fee.
So you get unlimited food for like $10 but the soda's cost you like $6![]()
You pay for a car. You cannot use it however you want.
You pay for property. You cannot use it however you want.
Purchasing something ≠ Unbridled usage rights
Sorry. In Canada we have free tethering up to our GB limit per month included with our plans. I just assumed AT&T had the same policy.
Sorry. In Canada we have free tethering up to our GB limit per month included with our plans. I just assumed AT&T had the same policy.
Your analogy is also flawed. I think a buffet is a better analogy: I pay for access to X amount of food. I can consume that food at whatever rate I choose.
Your car analogy doesn't work because the dealer doesn't set the speed limits. The carrier is like the dealership. And the dealership doesn't decide how you use your car.
Seems to me that if someone pays for a certain amount of data per month (or "unlimited" data) they have the right to consume their data however and at whatever rate they see fit.
Yes, and it seems very unfair. Data isn't like a house or a car. Rather, it's the electricity in the house and the gas in the car. Once you pay for it you SHOULD be able to use it in whatever way and at whatever rate you like. To believe otherwise is to rationalize being ripped off by your carrier.
While most common uses for Internet browsing, email and intranet access are permitted by your data plan, there are certain uses that cause extreme network capacity issues and interference with the network and are therefore prohibited. Examples of prohibited uses include, without limitation, the following: (i) server devices or host computer applications, including, but not limited to, Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections or peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing;
Alright...the buffet analogy...
Sure, you do pay for $15.99 for a buffet...but does that give you the right to stay there all day long and eat all day long? At one point, they would kick you out. If you dont believe me...i've seen some real hard stuff go down in an Hometown Buffet before...and in Vegas...This one woman was asked to leave because she took the entire tray of lobsters for her table...twice. When they were kicking her out, she screamed at the top of her lungs claiming she paid to eat as much as she wanted to. "its an all you can eat!" it was pretty sad.. (not to draw judgments but for illustrative purposes...she was reminiscent of your typical "wal-mart" fare)
If you pay for the buffet and can 'consume at whatever rate you want'...does that give you the right to take the whole ham hock instead of the slice they serve you?
Suppose in the car analogy...ATT is the government. You pay the government (local or state it doesnt matter..lets assume its "the government") to use their toll roads. As long as you pay the toll on this road, you can drive on it as much as you want, as long as you want, all day if you wanted to, you can "use the road" all you want essentially making it unlimited. It still doesnt give you the right to drive however you want..You can "tether" (see what I did there?a trailer onto your car if you want but you would have to pay extra on the toll road...Carrying trailers makes your car heavier which puts more stress on the roadworks. Additionally it takes up more space, and it makes traffic behind you move a bit slower. (Driving behind a trailer is miserable
).
Doesnt it make sense that the people tethering trailers without paying the appropriate fee for the road are doing something untoward?
He paid for unlimited data for use on his iPhone and iPhone only. He is not paying for unlimited use on his computer via tethering. People like him are the reason why unlimited data plans are a thing of the past.
Oh please. Usually people do not eat more than $15, however from time to time a big, fat American comes and eats for $100. Would you ban everyone from eating or just make sure you did a proper calculation beforehand and your "unlimited food for $15 not including beverages (smallprint)" business case is still legitimate even if a small (0.01%, remember) percent of users tries to abuse the service? C'mon, I worked in telco cost assurance and did abusive usage projects, but believe me, as long as it's not at least 1% of the total income, nobody would even care.If you pay $15 at a buffet where the average person eats 2 plates of food, and you regularly eat $500 of food, what do you think will happen?
20 GB per month borders on abuse.
If you pay $15 at a buffet where the average person eats 2 plates of food, and you regularly eat $500 of food, what do you think will happen?
Friends like yours are a big part of why unlimited plans are disappearing.
If the carriers can't handle 20GB per month then they shouldn't offer "unlimited" plans. Are you really going to blame the user for fairly exploiting what he or she paid for?
20 GB per month borders on abuse.
If you pay $15 at a buffet where the average person eats 2 plates of food, and you regularly eat $500 of food, what do you think will happen?
Friends like yours are a big part of why unlimited plans are disappearing.
but he is teathering so it is abuse. Unlimited also does not mean unlimited. If you abuse the network they can kick you off.
Personally I wish AT&T would say after so many gigs of data on unlimited plan you are kick off 3G and edge only. Say after 2 gigs you go edge only. Still unlimited. Does not change the contract just remove your burden off of the system.
What sucks about buffets nowadays is many prices don't include beverages. So in order to tether the beverage feature to the food feature, it's like an extra 20% of the original food price.
In honor of all the people in here complaining for no reason I will be tethering my iphone to my laptop tonight while I watch some HD youtube videos and stream a few movies from Netflix
hope you guys don't live near me
oh wait it doesn't matter.
Except nowhere in the contract does it specify that it's against the service rules to have a jailbroken device. And if it was made a part of new contracts... there would be outcries. Especially as there is nothing illegal about the device being jailbroken.AT&T should ask your friend to bring your phone in for service (hey, something with the network component is broken) and if they see it's jailbroken they should terminate the contract and charge him for tethering.
Your car analogy doesn't work because the dealer doesn't set the speed limits. The carrier is like the dealership. And the dealership doesn't decide how you use your car.
Incorrect.Except nowhere in the contract does it specify that it's against the service rules to have a jailbroken device. And if it was made a part of new contracts... there would be outcries. Especially as there is nothing illegal about the device being jailbroken.
Sorry. In Canada we have free tethering up to our GB limit per month
Your analogy is also flawed. I think a buffet is a better analogy: I pay for access to X amount of food. I can consume that food at whatever rate I choose.
Your car analogy doesn't work because the dealer doesn't set the speed limits.
Your friend deserves to have his contract terminated and should be charged separately for the data he used.
Seriously, people. If you're going to tether without paying, don't ****ing use it as a home internet connection and download multimedia files from it.
Tell your cheapass friend to get a job and buy a real connection.
This is what happens when you make jailbreaking so easy. Every moron in the world can jailbreak their phone (or another persons) and tether recklessly, ruining the network for the rest of us.