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Will You Give Up Your Unlimited Data For LTE???

Would You Give Up Unlimited Data For LTE Speeds?

  • I Would Give Up My Unlimited Data for LTE and a Newer Phone

    Votes: 45 42.9%

  • I Would Keep My Unlimited Data and Stick with a Previous iPhone

    Votes: 60 57.1%
  • Total voters
    105
iApples said:
He's also using a 'dumb' phone that most likely doesn't consume a lot of data. If he had a smartphone the plan would be removed in seconds. Without a plan, the service provider is able to change your plan in seconds and there is nothing you can do about it. I would advise not calling someone out and stating their wrong when you really aren't sure yourself.
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his plan has no data its unlimited minutes which is why I said it may be different for data as to why he was able to keep his dirt cheap unlimited minutes plan when they can just start charging him more if they wanted too.


whatever though I was trying to have a conversation and your just giving me dick responses every time so we'll just drop it.
 
iApples said:
Actually it is true. Everyone is able to get a subsidized price at the end of a contract or in most cases, with a year left in your contract. Once your contract comes to an end, you will no longer be able to have an unlimited data plan as the plan no longer will exist. You might as well get use to not using as much data as you want. Limit yourself and then when you do lose your unlimited data, you won't be going ape **** because you don't know what to do with your life. Thanks for the tips though......
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Do you work for AT&T corporate?
 
I am someone who uses their iPhone 4 quite often and hits between 4gb & 9gb a month.

I don't plan on upgrading if doing so would destroy my unlimited plan. I would take slower speeds with no restrictions over faster speeds and restrictions.

If AT&T actually had a cap that I thought was fair (in my opinion), I would probably switch but considering AT&T still think of 2gb as fair for the iPhone 4, I suspect the LTE caps will also be at a number that many will come close to.

With video and other high usage apps coming more available, I suspect these low caps will affect many more and more as time goes on

And I suspect AT&T will not raise the caps at all OR issue new caps for a ridiculous price that borders extortion
 
DiamondMac said:
With video and other high usage apps coming more available, I suspect these low caps will affect many more and more as time goes on
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The problem is that these new apps will likely only be compatible with the newer iOS releases, which are usually limited to the newer iPhones. If a data cap does come in place for LTE, eventually most people will switch over to the newer iPhone because sooner or later their current iPhone will become obsolete.
 
hurriance said:
The problem is that these new apps will likely only be compatible with the newer iOS releases, which are usually limited to the newer iPhones. If a data cap does come in place for LTE, eventually most people will switch over to the newer iPhone because sooner or later their current iPhone will become obsolete.
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I agree but I also think that even the current apps will become more common amongst the general public.

I know of more and more non-tech friends/family that slowly have started using Netflix/Hulu and other apps or sites as they realized that they were available.

Even if many don't upgrade to the newest phone and thus newest apps, video and data usage in general is still going to increase dramatically, imo, across the board age-wise.
 
iApples said:
Actually it is true. Everyone is able to get a subsidized price at the end of a contract or in most cases, with a year left in your contract. Once your contract comes to an end, you will no longer be able to have an unlimited data plan as the plan no longer will exist. You might as well get use to not using as much data as you want. Limit yourself and then when you do lose your unlimited data, you won't be going ape **** because you don't know what to do with your life. Thanks for the tips though......
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Perhaps.

I do know that once my original iPhone's plan expired, my billing went to a "month by month" basis. I was free to continue to pay (play?) along as long as I wanted - or terminate as I wish. I guess AT&T was free to change my "plan," but the fact is that they didn't... and it went that way for almost 15 months until I got the 4 (yes, I stuck with the original iPhone for almost 15 months after my contract expired and it was bought at full price... not subsidized!).
 
God no...

When LTE is officially rolled out in many major cities, 3G cell sites will be benefiting from the extra bandwidth from the new improved back haul. So those 3G sites will have faster speeds making 3G just close enough to the theoretical.
 
DiamondMac said:
I am someone who uses their iPhone 4 quite often and hits between 4gb & 9gb a month.

I don't plan on upgrading if doing so would destroy my unlimited plan. I would take slower speeds with no restrictions over faster speeds and restrictions.

If AT&T actually had a cap that I thought was fair (in my opinion), I would probably switch but considering AT&T still think of 2gb as fair for the iPhone 4, I suspect the LTE caps will also be at a number that many will come close to.

With video and other high usage apps coming more available, I suspect these low caps will affect many more and more as time goes on

And I suspect AT&T will not raise the caps at all OR issue new caps for a ridiculous price that borders extortion
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I pretty much am on the same page as this guy...well put!
 
Simm0nS777 said:
****Please only vote if you have unlimited otherwise it will obviously skew the results thanks!!!****

Title pretty much says it all. I still have the 3GS. If the next iPhone happens to have LTE, I assume AT&T will make you give up your unlimited data. If so Id be tempted to just pick up the iPhone 4. Its kind of a toss up to me if faster speeds are worth giving up unlimited data!!!
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http://androidforums.com/htc-thunderbolt/308691-ridiculous-lte-speeds.html

This thread makes me want to get a thunderbolt 4G just to be grandfathered into unlimited data and use the phone till VZW releases a LTE iphone!
 
jav6454 said:
God no...

When LTE is officially rolled out in many major cities, 3G cell sites will be benefiting from the extra bandwidth from the new improved back haul. So those 3G sites will have faster speeds making 3G just close enough to the theoretical.
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I'm getting good speeds now on my AT&T iPhone 4. I average 2-2.5 down/1.25-2 up.
 
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