PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301 Premium Member join:2005-01-03 1 edit |
Charging when you already paysaid by Karl Bode:They're also charging you extra for this when you already pay a monthly fee for an "unlimited data" plan whose TOS prohibits you from streaming any other video. So you're already paying to send and receive data, but they are going to charge you more for sending/receiving this particular data? And people are complaining that T-mobile is charging for @home. Hmpff. | |
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| morboComplete Your Transaction join:2002-01-22 00000 |
morbo
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2007-Jul-23 2:20 pm
Re: Charging when you already paythat's the new AT&T way. charge extra for everything. raise prices for existing services. your money is our money. | |
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Re: Charging when you already payOnly if you hand your money over. I don't think anyone is forced to video share. | |
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| | dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come Premium Member join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ |
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said by morbo:that's the new AT&T way. charge extra for everything. raise prices for existing services. your money is our money. Hmmmmm. sounds like the same ole A T & T to me. | |
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| MaxoYour tax dollars at work. Premium Member join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL |
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Yeah, just like every other useful or cool cell phone feature you have to be a yuppy to actual afford it. | |
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I wonder if any of the cell carriers understand unlimited for extra 5 bucks. I am lucky that the old sprint pcs vision (not power vision) gave me that complete unlimited data and text all in one package for 10, which is now free. 700 min prime, free nights & weekends, unlim data/text for $55. | |
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| | tommy13v Premium Member join:2002-02-15 Niskayuna NY |
tommy13v
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2007-Jul-23 3:28 pm
Re: Charging when you already paysaid by ossito16:I wonder if any of the cell carriers understand unlimited for extra 5 bucks. I am lucky that the old sprint pcs vision (not power vision) gave me that complete unlimited data and text all in one package for 10, which is now free. 700 min prime, free nights & weekends, unlim data/text for $55. Lucky? I get that for $35 a month(Tax included). | |
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Re: Charging when you already paydo I detect a Sprint SERO plan? :P | |
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tommy13v
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2007-Jul-24 9:03 am
Re: Charging when you already payYou caught me. Thanks Fatwallet. | |
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Re: Charging when you already paysaid by tommy13v:You caught me. Thanks Fatwallet. hey Tommy, I did a google on fatwallet and found the forum with SERO information, is that still open, Can I do it? | |
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tommy13v
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2007-Jul-24 10:40 am
Re: Charging when you already payyes, it is still open. I had a friend do it last week and he got the following.
500 minutes unlimited powervision unlimited roaming unlimited TXT unlimited PIX TXT nights at 7pm
$35 with taxes. I used a code to get an addition 200 minutes a month and $50 credit. The info is all in the forum posts. | |
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Re: Charging when you already pay$50 credit each month? Or just one time?
Also, can you add the 200 minutes code any time you want? If so, could I have the code? I'd be really interested in adding that to my SERO line. | |
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| MizzatWill post for thumbs Premium Member join:2003-05-03 Atlanta, GA 1 edit |
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said by PolarBear03:So you're already paying to receive data, but they are going to charge you more for receiving this particular data? And people are complaining that T-mobile is charging for @home. Hmpff. not receiving, but sending | |
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| | PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301 Premium Member join:2005-01-03 |
Re: Charging when you already payDoes the direction really matter? That's like everyone (including myself) that thinks all internet connections should be symmetrical. | |
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Lark3po Premium Member join:2003-08-05 Madison, AL |
Lark3po
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2007-Jul-23 2:19 pm
No thanks.Yet another way to nickle and dime everything they can get out of poor Joe, Jane and their kids. | |
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axus
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2007-Jul-23 2:31 pm
haPeople aren't going to go for this except maybe some spoiled kids. The only logical reason to keep these boutique services overpriced is because they don't have the back-end bandwidth to handle everyone doing it. It's not a shock that people won't pay $10 a month for this thing when they should be paying once for the application to do it.
Really, what is the deal with slow backends on mobile networks? If Verizon can bring FIOS to people's home's, why aren't they doing the same to their cell towers? | |
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| SylphFi Premium Member join:2007-06-07 Moses Lake, WA |
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2007-Jul-23 4:01 pm
Re: haWireless is fundamentally different from wired. It is a serial medium (imagine running 50 people in a room all trying to be heard by the whole group, vs those same 50 people all writing messages on signs for everyone to read), where FIOS is more a parallel medium.
In order for them to provide FIOS like connections on the cell towers, they would have to give each connected phone its own frequency (probably 3-6 megahertz of it). I don't know how big their spectrum chunk is, but I highly doubt it is 300-600 megahertz (assuming they don't have any overlapping coverage from other towers, which would force them to have more than one spectrum chunk, or reduce the number of concurrent connections and/or bandwidth). | |
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2007-Jul-23 4:45 pm
Re: haNot exactly...FiOS is a serial connection. It's simply faster. Mobile service, until very recently, used traditional TDM service to deliver services, and those leased lines were expensive. technology improvements are shifting towards IP as the means of delivery. Better utilization of resources, and better speeds, but not all areas have been updated. | |
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axus
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2007-Jul-24 5:00 pm
Re: hayeah that's what I meant, the tower use a cheap/reliable connection with a lot of speed, not that each individual cell phone be as fast as FIOS. Basically if WiFi devices can be always on at 1-10Mbps or higher why not cell phones? I don't know what TDM service is but IP is a pretty well proven low cost technology | |
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RhanlavDook? join:2005-01-28 Jacksonville, FL |
Funny...I was watching an iPhone commercial about how it could stream YouTube videos (and even showed it streaming the video of a skateboard riding dog). You really would think the advert makers would read the TOS as well. Makes me wonder how many people would ACTUALLY pay the cash to have video sharing. | |
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Re: Funny...Uhh this is live streaming video from a handset. Nothing to do with utoob. Only Verzon blocks that type of stuff | |
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shoan
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2007-Jul-23 3:03 pm
prank callingthis could totally take prank calling to a whole new level. I would totally moon my wife at work with this service. | |
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| SalesGODGot Money? Will Sell join:2001-04-11 Tinley Park, IL |
Re: prank callingWhy pay to moon your wife via the phone when you can go home and do it for free in person? And if you get real lucky....she might moon you back | |
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en102Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA |
en102
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2007-Jul-23 3:38 pm
More add-ons in an attempt to get $$$Just like when the original AT&T Wireless allowed free incoming text/mms/sms (w/o any text or data plan).
I'd take an email client on MEdiaNet and forward video clips vs. sending through video share. | |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace join:2004-08-07 New York, NY |
This crap is a RIP OFF!I have maybe sent 10 picture messages in my life, and maybe 4 video messages. In fact, I probably sent them all within about 10 minutes of one another and then it got really old. Either way, this "Video Share" crap is stupid. The slogan is "Video Share Shows It Live". Ok......and??? Why do you need to send one way (not two way mind you!) video in real time? Isnt it much easier, and cheaper, to take a video clip using your phone and then (gasp!) use your MMS that you already pay for to send a video message? I suppose the fact that its "live" as opposed to "15 seconds ago" means its worth $10 a month. | |
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| PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301 Premium Member join:2005-01-03 |
Re: This crap is a RIP OFF!said by wifi4milez:I suppose the fact that its "live" as opposed to "15 seconds ago" means its worth $10 a month. Good point. I just realized something: $0.16, $0.20, and $0.35 per minute? Are you f*#ing' nuts? | |
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Death on videoOk.. I can see it now. Some moron driving down the road video streaming his girlfriend when POW!!.. A 18 wheel takes him out for running a stop sign.. and it's live! Way to go AT&T.. give lawmakers another reason to ban cell phone use while driving. | |
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Old newsMy friend has an app on his Sprint Windows mobile phone that does this free.
When he showed it to me I didnt even ask for it because I didnt care lol. | |
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Re: Old newssaid by Dissonance:My friend has an app on his Sprint Windows mobile phone that does this free. When he showed it to me I didnt even ask for it because I didnt care lol. know what the app is called? I wouldn't pay for a service like this, but I would be interested in testing it out, just for the heck of it, if it were free (I have a Windows Mobile phone....and I have Sprint's unlimited data so...heheh). | |
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Re: Old newsPerhaps Fox McCloud was referring to Pocket Caster? It is by the company comvu ( www.comvu.com ) and is currently free. I once used it at the state capitol building in Austin to give a tour to my parents up in Illinois. I was able to connect to a wi-fi access point and therefore have a higher speed upload while being able to use the phone so that I could answer questions, etc. that my parents asked. it is fairly nifty, but I do not use it that often. | |
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Re: Old newsok, thanks for the information! | |
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