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Unlimited AT&T Data

impulse462 said:
Same thing. i can eat a **** ton of food at an all you can eat buffet. or i can take it with me. it doesn't matter where I eat the food, inside or outside. And if it does matter that much to people, then they have a stick up their ass
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And again, this is why we lose things that are "unlimited". People don't use common sense and abuse the system.
 
Unlimited AT&T Data

impulse462 said:
Same thing. i can eat a **** ton of food at an all you can eat buffet. or i can take it with me. it doesn't matter where I eat the food, inside or outside. And if it does matter that much to people, then they have a stick up their ass
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I would like you to go to your nearest buffet. Take ten little red pull wagons in with you. Proceed to fill those little red wagons with every last bit of food at the buffet. Leave the buffet with said ten wagons. Video tape the endeavor. I'm interested to see how long it is until you're asked to stop filling the wagons and are told to either eat what what you can, while at the establishment or simply. There's no way they're letting you out with ten wagons filled with food.

There are limits to what you can do, and how you do it with all sorts of things in life. Eventually if 7 out of 10 of their customers tried doing this daily, they'll put up a sign saying the buffet is no longer all you can eat, maximum of 5 plates per person per paid meal.

That being said, a carrier is allowed to say no tethering... And people who abused this stuff in the past is why they are moving away from it.
 
impulse462 said:
Same thing. i can eat a **** ton of food at an all you can eat buffet. or i can take it with me. it doesn't matter where I eat the food, inside or outside. And if it does matter that much to people, then they have a stick up their ass
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I have never in my life seen a buffet where you're allowed to take home a doggie bag. Maybe I haven't been to enough buffets.
 
palmerc2 said:
One of the many reasons I'm about to ditch ATT in favor of t-mobile.
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Exactly. Not sure why people think AT&T is going to change anything when they keep sending them money every month. Nothing speaks louder to corporations than removing them from your wallet.
 
This can potentially be good news for all of us with grand fathered accounts. I get throttled way before 5 Gigs, such a pain in the ass sometimes.
 
That is nonsense, the plan is "unlimited" not limited to 5 gig and then network management. They are more than willing to sell you buckets of 10/20/30 gig of data which they claim will never be impacted by throttling. So the whole notion of network management in this case is bogus.

Why should the user have to mind & meter how he/she consumes his/her "unlimited" data?

If you want to do away with unlimited plans, drop them and give customers a way out with no etf's as you are breaking the contract terms.



Chris Blount said:
And again, this is why we lose things that are "unlimited". People don't use common sense and abuse the system.
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Gmcube said:
Unethical? We pay good money for that data, we should be able to use it any way we please. It shouldn't be any of their business what devices happen to be using it on.
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If I had a nickel for ever time I hear that argument
 
That doesn't make it wrong. We haven't had a competitive wireless marketplace here in the USA for a long time. We still pay too much for our wireless service and the bill just keeps going up., in most other countries it keeps coming down.

afurry13 said:
If I had a nickel for ever time I hear that argument
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b1scu1t said:
That doesn't make it wrong. We haven't had a competitive wireless marketplace here in the USA for a long time. We still pay too much for our wireless service and the bill just keeps going up., in most other countries it keeps coming down.
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It most certainly does. Time and time again the wireless companies have told you that you're paying for unlimited data on your device. Even T-Mobile, the self pronounced people's carrier, doesn't give you unlimited tethering with unlimited data.

It's a justification for why you break your agreement and jailbreak for tethering apps. That doesn't make it morally acceptable.
 
Well your morals may be, but not mine. Just because there is some stupid clause in the contract that I supposedly have to agree to that precludes me from jailbreaking my phone, I am supposed to follow it?

afurry13 said:
It most certainly does. Time and time again the wireless companies have told you that you're paying for unlimited data on your device. Even T-Mobile, the self pronounced people's carrier, doesn't give you unlimited tethering with unlimited data.

It's a justification for why you break your agreement and jailbreak for tethering apps. That doesn't make it morally acceptable.
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palmerc2 said:
One of the many reasons I'm about to ditch ATT in favor of t-mobile.
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I've been there and done that with T-mobile. I wouldn't wish that POS company on my worst enemy.

IF your choice is between AT&T and t-mobile. For the love of strange medicine, avoid T-mobile.

AT&T is expensive and its customer service by and large is suspect. But at least it completes calls as dialed and can actually get you data. T-mobile I had to sit in a corner of the house and pray the wind was blowing right to even get a modicum of coverage. And it was worse if I left the house.
 
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b1scu1t said:
Well your morals may be, but not mine. Just because there is some stupid clause in the contract that I supposedly have to agree to that precludes me from jailbreaking my phone, I am supposed to follow it?
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Lol. Yes! If you don't like the agreement then don't agree to it!! Take your money somewhere else or move to a plan that allows tethering and PAY FOR IT.
 
As I said, these are your morals, if you are such a stickler to the rules, go ahead and leave, I am not and this doesn't bother me 1 bit.


afurry13 said:
Lol. Yes! If you don't like the agreement then don't agree to it!! Take your money somewhere else or move to a plan that allows tethering and PAY FOR IT.
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I think the problem here is that unlimited data isn't really "unlimited" per say. Of course, AT&T never made that clear. Now I understand the whole thing with tethering, but to blame most for tethering as the reason to lose unlimited data is a bit far stretched. It's all about squeezing more money out of the consumer via tiered data plans. Why should I be throttled after 5GB's under unlimited but the person who pays more gets 30 GB's of data with no throttling? $$$, that's why.
 
I average about 6-8 GB a month and never abused the data. This is the horse ***** speeds I get after going 5GB with another 12 days before my new billing cycle.

San Jose, CA






 
You obviously have a weird definition of stealing. Judge me all you want, it is water of a ducks back.

You are having a discussion of conscience in a transaction with a multinational corporation about a wireless data plan. You are one of those holier than thou preening dudes. You can pontificate all you want to in your moral soapbox and feel really great about it.

afurry13 said:
Then what does trigger your conscience? Clearly stealing doesn't.
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b1scu1t said:
You obviously have a weird definition of stealing. Judge me all you want, it is water of a ducks back.



You are having a discussion of conscience in a transaction with a multinational corporation about a wireless data plan. You are one of those holier than thou preening dudes. You can pontificate all you want to in your moral soapbox and feel really great about it.
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And that multinational corporation has you by the balls so much that you can't even fathom leaving for a company that will provide what you want?
 
yes, and what do you plan to do about it? pray for me? please do.

afurry13 said:
And that multinational corporation has you by the balls so much that you can't even fathom leaving for a company that will provide what you want?
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Orangechipper said:
I've been there and done that with T-mobile. I wouldn't wish that POS company on my worst enemy.

IF your choice is between AT&T and t-mobile. For the love of strange medicine, avoid T-mobile.

AT&T is expensive and its customer service by and large is suspect. But at least it completes calls as dialed and can actually get you data. T-mobile I had to sit in a corner of the house and pray the wind was blowing right to even get a modicum of coverage. And it was worse if I left the house.
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Well as it so happens I switched to T-Mobile last week.....haven't had a single issue so far.
 
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