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| reply to BuzzDar
Re: How to lose customers
said by BuzzDar  :The only people that are complaining about the data cap are the people that are streaming music, movies and/or people downloading lots and lots of stuff every day. I check my mail surf the web can do just about anything i want that is LEGAL or within the T.O.S. and never even come close to using that much. Funny though as my new AT&T Blackberry allows streaming music. |
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BuzzDar
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West Frankfort, IL | i would say check your T O S because i bet just because you can DO IT dont mean you are suppose to. |
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| said by BuzzDar :i would say check your T O S because i bet just because you can DO IT dont mean you are suppose to. It's a preloaded application on the AT&T firmware for the Blackberry. I haven't tried it but if they don't allow it I would think they would not put it on their firmware. |
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Yeah, AT&T preloads phones with all kinds of links to streaming audio and video sites (they do call it "media" net after all). The iPhone has the youtube stuff in it too.
If you're doing those things periodically when out and about, 5gb is probably enough. I think this is of concern mostly to people who are using wireless data as an alternative to DSL or cable. Im sure AT&T doesn't want to start losing DSL revenue to inexpensive wireless data plans.
Personally, I'd rather save $5/month and have a 5gb cap. However, they're overcharging for "PDA" internet plans. Why is that more expensive? It's just a data pipe. $20/month is the most I will spend on a mobile data plan.
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| one has never used the built in gps featre of the moto q9h then, that thing is allways using data to find addresses, update routes, ect.... and thats a preloaded app they put on the phone, dont get me started on the xm mobile app thats preloaded that streams xm sat radio..... |
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ptrowski
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clubs: | My Blackberry has GPS also and they made it a huge point to remind me of that. Thank god my car has it built in. |
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djrobx
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I don't doubt it uses the data pipe frequently, but have you measured the actual data transfer? Just because you're making a lot of transactions doesn't necessarily mean you're consuming lots of data. Unless you're a cab driver or pizza delivery guy I can't imagine you need to use your GPS THAT often.
Lets say XM is streaming at 80kbps. If you listened to music for 8 hours:
8 hours = 28800 seconds
80kbps x 28800 = 2,304,000 kbits = 288,000KB.
So, 5GB would equal around 145 hours of streaming music! Even if you had higher quality, that's a tremendous amount of time to spend on your cell. |
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|  I wonder how many streaming XM subscriptions they have sold? I looked at it very briefly and it appeared to be worthless. And I have been a regular XM subscriber for years.
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said by djrobx :Unless you're a cab driver or pizza delivery guy I can't imagine you need to use your GPS THAT often. You forget that GPS/mapping apps also have real-time traffic. For those of us with long commutes the ability to see traffic info in real time is more important than the mapping capability. Now that I have a phone with integrated GPS I basically turn it on every time I get in the car, just so the traffic function can warn me of anything I need to avoid. |
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