http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22616856 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:14:36 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:14:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22632954 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22632954 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:28:18 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22629452 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22629452 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:13:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22625367 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22625367 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:02:25 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22624039
Yes, consumers are stupid. If they were smart, no one would pay $15,000 for a handbag or $80,000 for a GM car.

If voters were smart, they wouldn't have elected Stuart Smally either. Or Obama.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22624039 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:03:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22623971 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22623971 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:42:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22621127
Does the CEO of AT&T personally have to calculate the bill by hand to justify that kind of cost?

Did they have to chase after Adam on his trip, erecting temporary antennas?

We're talking 3 orders of magnitude from a normal bill.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22621127 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:49:19 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22618786 --
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Look at AT&T's whole "Slad and Veeder" campaign. TV and radio blanketed with these ads about AT&T network worldwide.

I'm betting a lot of people think that means they can use their phones on that network on their existing plans. Bzzzzzzt. Wrong guess. Oh they can.... they'll just get the mega-bill later.
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Lots (all?) of mobile phone companies make a big deal of offering free roaming (for voice within the US). How many sales pitches come with those caveats?

The customer hears free roaming and figures he doesn't have to worry about traveling.
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At the same time, 3G aircards and other means of getting onto wireless data networks are becoming more and more mainstream, especially with the subsidized netbooks being bundled with them as the article mentions. We're going to be seeing more and more non-tech savvy people getting on board with these devices and not understanding all of the minutiae.

It is therefore my belief that the wireless companies need to do a better job of warning users when bandwidth consumption strays into the "ludicrously expensive" category. And I mean really warning people, like by calling the number associated with the account holder, not just sending a fire-and-forget SMS that isn't guaranteed to be received by the device in question and saying "Due diligence done!" Or, provide the customer with an option to have their service suspended when a particular amount of bandwidth has been consumed, just in case.

But then the wireless companies couldn't profit from your stupidity, ignorance, or honest mistakes...could they.
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"I'll follow the law until it's just stupid." -Ted Nugent]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Hardly-surprising-22616909 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:48:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Hardly-surprising-22616856 I mean, yes, it would TEND to help if wireless companies were a tad more helpful when it came to notifications, i.e. the walled garden system, but as they say... you can't fix stupid.

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