pnh102
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AT&T should not only provide these devices at zero cost, but they should also give a discount on their wireless service to everyone who uses such a device.
I have my doubts that people who live in places where AT&T has bad service will pay extra to AT&T for something that should be working correctly to begin with.
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gdm
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clubs: | Depending on cost and whether it uses my minutes. I would consider it. |
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Neyland
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ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
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said by gdm  :Depending on cost and whether it uses my minutes. I would consider it. Same here. I'm not sure of the price I'd be willing to pay, but I know I wouldn't be willing to get it if it was like VZW's model, where you buy the thing, get no extra minutes, and can't even control who connects to it.
If the femtocell benefits AT&T by reducing the load on their network, then I'm going to get some benefit out of it, or I'm not buying. |
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NOCMan
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There's a number of causes of bad service for any wireless carrier. Try covering a large home with a 802.11G access point and you might see the problems wireless carriers have.
Can not exactly put a tower in everyone's back yard, and if you're in a PCS zone which is 1.9Ghz vs Cellular which is 900mhz the signal does not penetrate vegetation or walls etc as well as Cellular.
LTE will use 700Mhz which will have even better penetration so hopefully some fringe areas will benefit.
Carriers can not just up more towers, municipalities restrict carriers or ask for hundreds of thousands of dollars up front for the tower to be built, or force the carrier to limit it's height which in turn limits it's usefulness.
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pnh102
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A particular carrier's coverage issues are not my problem. I just go with whoever provides the best service in my area. For me, that just happens to be AT&T.
What I won't do is pay extra (over my monthly subscriber fee) to get the same level of service that someone who does live near a tower would get for that same fee.
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Matt
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said by pnh102 :AT&T should not only provide these devices at zero cost, but they should also give a discount on their wireless service to everyone who uses such a device. I have my doubts that people who live in places where AT&T has bad service will pay extra to AT&T for something that should be working correctly to begin with. I don't think they should provide the devices at zero cost, but I don't think if they're connected to a broadband connection that you pay for that your minutes should be used. We are talking about AT&T here though, so I fully expect it to be an extra fee. |
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pnh102
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| said by Matt :I don't think they should provide the devices at zero cost ... In most populated areas, you have at least one or more good cell provider that works reasonably well. If that provider isn't AT&T, then why would anyone pay extra to AT&T for a device to make their service work as expected when one could pay less to another provider and get usable service instead?
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said by Neyland :That's the big question, does it use minutes? It's AT&T, of course it'll use minutes.
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You should pay a reasonable fee for the device itself, but NEVER pay any fee to use it. It also shouldn't use your cell minutes. People using femtocells is a huge win for the carriers since it takes stress off their cell sites. I get "free" service when I use it, and they don't have to spend so much money to add capacity to their cellular network. |
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Matt
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said by pnh102 :said by Matt :I don't think they should provide the devices at zero cost ... In most populated areas, you have at least one or more good cell provider that works reasonably well. If that provider isn't AT&T, then why would anyone pay extra to AT&T for a device to make their service work as expected when one could pay less to another provider and get usable service instead? That's a good question that I think would best be decided on an individual basis. I pay for sub-par AT&T service because it's cheaper than Verizon. On the order of about $100 a month less. So I'd happily fork out $199 or so for a Femotocell device, but I'll be damn if I'm paying a monthly fee for it if it uses my minutes too. |
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Siryak
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said by gdm :Depending on cost and whether it uses my minutes. I would consider it. I would rather it use minutes than having to pay extra for it. I have thousands of rollover minutes anyway.
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