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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | reply to swintec
Re: Lets be real people... I think you are misunderstanding what megatron is trying to say (I THINK). It appears to me as though he means that AT&T sets the price that YOU pay. Sure, a particular carrier may charge $0.10 per KB when you roam on them, but your contract with AT&T states that roaming data is $0.0195. Thus, you pay AT&T $0.0195 for roaming data no matter what.
By this, AT&T couldn't bill you $30,000 for a few MBs of data claiming that that's what the roaming carrier charged them, even if it was true. Your contract with AT&T states that roaming data is $0.0195 for kb, so that's all they can charge you.
If AT&T loses money on an arrangement such as this, that is their problem. But I think that they do it because they count on it happening very little. I know that their contracts stipulate that if 50% or more of your usage (voice or data) is on a roaming partner for a certain amount of time (something like two or three consecutive billing cycles), they reserve the right to simply cancel your service (sans ETF). (I knew a guy who had AT&T and moved to a Unicel-covered area. Two months later, they sent him a letter and cut him off.) | |
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| said by PolarBear03:I think you are misunderstanding what megatron is trying to say (I THINK). It's possible. It came off as though he was saying since AT&T charges a flat roaming rate for international data, no matter where you are, it would seem (at least to him) that AT&T can tell the roaming company how much they are paying per kilobyte. I could have mistaken his intent though. Hopefully he comes back to clarify.
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