 AnClarPremium
join:2003-07-31
Belton, TX | It helps to be tech savvy. Still..... I can see and agree with several points people have been making.
1. This is absolutely profit-driven by AT&T.
2. They will not bother to invest the time and effort to rework their billing systems.
3. AT&T is counting on people not being able to differentiate when they are using 3g as opposed to wifi.
4. They do it because they can.
There are lessons to be learned here, but unfortunately, since the vast majority of people are lazy, nothing will ever get better. What's missing in the equation is COMPETITION! Yeah, I know there are other carriers, but market penetration and coverage are not uniform, and so people are forced into using maybe the only carrier in their area that works decently most of the time.
Femtocells, as others have noted, are simply a way for carriers to avoid building out decent networks. They should be free to obtain and to use. Femto vendors have once again taken shameful advantage of a captive audience to fatten their already obscenely fat wallets. All I do is try to minimize the extent to which I'm bent over by greedy businesses, and try to be an informed consumer. More people should try it.
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