 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to baineschile
Re: Restricted Internet Service said by baineschile:A pro-consumer, mildly naive point of view. If I invest all this money in my infastructure, I should be able to generally dictate what goes on with it, and suspend people if they abuse it. If they dont like that, face the free market, where they can go to a different provider that may have more options for that consumer as far as bandwidth consumption. I think "generally dictating" would fall under the 5GB cap. Who cares if I use all 5GB at once? I pay extra or lose service if I go over.
As far as being naive, do you really think we have any choice or the option of ANY carrier who doesn't impose bandwidth consumption limits, penalize you with high ETF fees, and generally collude with the other carrier to keep prices high and service low.
If I would have known my AT&T service was going to be so terrible and they were going to block me from using certain applications, I would never have signed up in the first place. |
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| I'm kind of surprised you thought you'd get great service from AT&T. The horror stories from this site alone have kept me from getting an I-Phone.
And this all encompassing excuse of "bandwidth concerns"is really stupid considering they are once again overselling capacity. Don't put out 5 million I-Phones if your network can only handle 500,000.
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by S_engineer:I'm kind of surprised you thought you'd get great service from AT&T. The horror stories from this site alone have kept me from getting an I-Phone. And this all encompassing excuse of "bandwidth concerns"is really stupid considering they are once again overselling capacity. Don't put out 5 million I-Phones if your network can only handle 500,000. The horror stories weren't quite so plentiful a year ago. I honestly believe the iPhone caught AT&T off-guard, because the service wasn't as bad a year ago as it is today. In other words, it's been slowly getting worse and worse. |
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 tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
join:2008-01-16
Chandler, AZ | said by Matt:The horror stories weren't quite so plentiful a year ago. I honestly believe the iPhone caught AT&T off-guard, because the service wasn't as bad a year ago as it is today. In other words, it's been slowly getting worse and worse. the reason i went with an iphone was simply because of the fact that i had experience with att in this part of the country and i was pleasantly surprised.
i had a work provided blackjack2 on att. once company policy changes occured, i purchased a 3gs and i haven't been taken aback by the network. its fairly speedy down here and the coverage rivals any other major carrier.
best of all - work foots the bill (voice, data, and unlimited text), so i guess i have no real vested interest other than the phone.
it works well for what i do, ymmv.
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