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Gbcue
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2011-Jul-29 3:05 pm
AT&T Unlimited UsersYou are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.
To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan. | |
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2011-Jul-29 3:19 pm
Re: AT&T Unlimited Userssaid by Gbcue:You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.
To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan. And how long will TMO's cost structure and network mgt practices survive the AT&T takeover? | |
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said by Gbcue:You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.
To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan. Uh...ATT still charges overages doofus. | |
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Gbcue
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2011-Jul-29 3:55 pm
Re: AT&T Unlimited Userssaid by sonicmerlin:said by Gbcue:You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.
To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan. Uh...ATT still charges overages doofus. I didn't say it didn't. | |
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| | Thaler Premium Member join:2004-02-02 Los Angeles, CA |
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said by sonicmerlin:said by Gbcue:You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.
To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan. Uh...ATT still charges overages doofus. Wait...so you pay data overages AND have the pleasure of being throttled? | |
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tiger72
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2011-Jul-29 5:21 pm
Re: AT&T Unlimited UsersHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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No, this post neglects to mention that this only applies to those AT&T customers that still remain on the grandfathered unlimited data plans and are among the top 5% in terms of bandwidth usage. Those with "limited" plans that pay for overages are not affected by this. | |
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Thaler
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2011-Aug-1 6:32 pm
Re: AT&T Unlimited UsersYeah, I kind of thought it wouldn't make sense to throttle those who already are pay-per-byte. AT&T would just be shooting itself in the foot in collecting data plan overages that way. However, I didn't see any specific descriptions to the throttled plans, so I didn't know if it was the unlimited customers or all customers. | |
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| ptrowskiGot Helix? Premium Member join:2005-03-14 Woodstock, CT |
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You mean AT&T's soon to be robust network. Man that must keep you up at night. | |
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Gbcue
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2011-Jul-29 4:01 pm
Re: AT&T Unlimited UsersAT&T should spend that $39-billion in infrastructure upgrades. Then they'd have a network that could handily beat Verizon, and truly nationwide, too.
Maybe you can explain this, but how would rural people benefit from a merger with T-Mobile? T-Mobile primarily serves URBAN areas because population density is higher (more ROI for towers and advertising). The commercial says 15M more rural people would access the network. | |
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Re: AT&T Unlimited UsersSo AT&T is lying again. Anything else new? | |
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said by Gbcue:The commercial says 15M more rural people would access the network. Likely some rural areas TMO has service and will become ATT after the merger. PR work is harder than real work at the end of the day, after all. | |
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said by Gbcue:You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.
To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan. And then lose half our 3G coverage and get ready to be bought out by AT&T regardless? Besides, AT&T isn't that slow in every area Of course I have been getting faster T-Mobile speeds in my area because nobody uses T-Mobile which leaves me an empty network Samsung Galaxy S 4G | |
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They are gonna throttle unlimited plans and let tiered plans go past their limit at full speed making the overage data pile up at full speed. What a joke. | |
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Thaler
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2011-Jul-31 11:08 pm
Re: AT&T Unlimited UsersThat makes more sense. Why throttle the people on pay-per-byte plans they're already paying a hefty overage fee as it is? | |
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kataan
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2011-Jul-29 3:18 pm
Yet another reason the merger should not go through!This is yet another reason the merger should not go through! T-mobile is implementing every thing the mommy AT&T does and says before they even do it. Even under contract my bill has gone from $120 to $205 with no changes. They won't let me change my plan or services and they no longer pro-rate the ETF. As far as I am concerned AT&T and T-mobile have already merged. | |
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Gbcue
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2011-Jul-29 3:24 pm
Re: Yet another reason the merger should not go through!said by kataan:This is yet another reason the merger should not go through! T-mobile is implementing every thing the mommy AT&T does and says before they even do it. Even under contract my bill has gone from $120 to $205 with no changes. They won't let me change my plan or services and they no longer pro-rate the ETF. As far as I am concerned AT&T and T-mobile have already merged. What are you talking about? T-Mobile has always throttled after 5GB (back in the day). What line items have gone up from $120 to $205? It sure isn't tax. | |
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Well, not prorating the ETF is not an AT&T practice, either. Every contract I've had with them includes a prorated ETF. I took them up on it once because of a device I was deeply dissatisfied with. They made a deal with me for 6 months to pay $10 for a blank line, to pay $60 and fulfill the contract, rather than pay over $170 for the remainder of the ETF(originally $350 at start of contract). For customer service and holding up their end of contracts, AT&T has done fine by me. | |
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Re: for the shits and gigglesAll I can say is good luck. I hope for your sake AT&T doesn't sue you. I read that site and read the TOS (unlike the masses that don't) and realized that if I don't earn any money from the lawsuit that will cover legal fees, that I am responsible for the law firms legal fees. I'd have no problem with that if I knew what the rate was and the expected amount of work. Go ahead, give them a blank check.
As for AT&T, all the consumers are doomed until we get a new government. Pretty simple. I guess I'll pay $200/month for my iPhones and $150 in their voice, standard TV and internet with overages on everything but tv. | |
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[att=2] WHY IS QUEEN STILL ON?! | |
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ptrowskiGot Helix? Premium Member join:2005-03-14 Woodstock, CT |
ptrowski
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2011-Jul-29 4:00 pm
In the Mac forum... | |
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Re: In the Mac forum...from wiki about 4g. the ITU-R organization specified the IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced) requirements for 4G standards, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 Mbit/s for high mobility communication (such as from trains and cars) and 1 Gbit/s for low mobility communication (such as pedestrians and stationary users).
Pre-4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX and first-release Long term evolution (LTE) have been on the market since 2006 | |
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2011-Jul-29 8:15 pm
Throttlening nonsense ?I always wonder where the benefit for a telco is to throttle heavy users at the end of the month. If the reason is that those users overload the infrastructure then why don't we have total breakdowns at the beginning of each month? Do they have user uprisings on the 1st when the net comes to an [imagined] standstill? Does net traffic miraculously get more expensive say the last week of a month? | |
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I thought at@t already does that ...It's called 3G lol AT&T is such a fool | |
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Re: Throttlening nonsense ?Everyone has a different cycle period. For example, mine is on the 5th of every month. | |
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2011-Jul-30 3:55 am
Under contract - unlimited data plan?How are they reconciling this October deadline with my 2 year contract (ends in 2012) with unlimited data plan? | |
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Like this was a suprise, bye,bye Iphone unlimited...Really tell me did no one see this coming, all those people who said.."Im sure glad I got my unlimited data locked in with ATT, Im grandfathered in"... HAHAHA as I said before ATT will find any and all ways to nickel and dime you as well as screw you out of what you think you should be receiving. When I saw TMO months ago implement there throttling I knew ATT was only months behind. Expect those of you on those unlimited/ Iphone plans to be softly transitioned over to a 1GB of data at 3g/4g speeds and anything over that at 64- 128 kbps ( same as what Tmoblie gives throttled users) for the remainder of the month on all unlimited plans. Its been said before and for those who did not catch it the devil is in the details, you were promised by ATT unlimited data you were never promised unlimited 3g/4g speeds!
Let me not forget for those of you on Verizon who would dare open your mouth and say " haha you should have gone to Verizon and got an unlimited plan before they started tiered pricing", guess what they will be next to follow suit and throttle there unlimited customers, so please don't laugh for your time will soon be up as well. Unless more competition is available ( IE: ban ATT / Tmobile takeover and only allow Tmobile to sell to a new wireless carrier Ie: vodaphone, dishnetwork, google, etc whoever s willing to start service where TMO stopped) this will become the norm. | |
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And I am sure in a few months people using over 1gb willbe getting throttled and AT&T will deny it....and then a few months after that implement a new "Super, Awesome Data Cap" plan that says EVERYONE using over 1gb is a abuser needing to visit jail
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Don't believe the hype.I want to see proof of the congestion that is the supposed need for the throttling.
I have two college friends who work fairly high up in AT&T and when we all get together they claim there is no real congestion except for peak hours and only in the very largest cities and that minimal network upgrades to those towns could alleviate the problem. | |
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tick...tock...30 days and counting...
**Notice $4 gasoline is back.. just in time for back to school.. expect $5 gasoline for the holiday shopping season courtesy of big oil!! Add that to your overall budget for overages... and let's see how much destruction of demand spills over.. | |
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