AT&T Wages Quiet War on Grandfathered Unlimited Users
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mike123abc said:
That is the most business explanation. If they have the bandwidth they won't mess with a paying customer. But when people start complaining of dropped calls they will dump one hog in favor of dozens of POed customers every time.
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I think though that custom roms have a way of hiding that, because I've tethered enough times that I should have been thrown off my unlimited plan way back when FroYo came out. I think AT&T focused more on iPhone tethering because so many people had them and AT&T's Android selection was s**t, but since the release of the Samsung Galaxy series and subsequent explosion of Android phones on the platform, Android tether watching is bound to increase..
Their war is becoming not so quiet now..... Gaining national media attention. AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - msnbc.com
Again, like I have been saying
This is why I do not believe that 2GB is really the top 5%. It is just below a more expensive limited plan. I believe the whole point of throttling is to force people to pay more for less.
Think about it. He switches to the 3GB plan and still uses 2.5GB, so he is still considered part of the top 5%, and they mysteriously no longer have congestion issues because these 2.5GB users are on a different plan?
So if he were on a different plan but still used the same amount he would not be throttled? Does that still address the congestion issue?
I think they throttle in areas where competition is not that great and throttle only those whom are still under contract and cannot leave to another provider. I have been warned myself but have never been throttled and some months will go over 5GB. They know if they throttle me I will just go over the Sprint. I will be willing to bet anyone that if I get a new phone and am placed under a 2 year contract that I will suddenly become throttled for using the same amount of data I have always used. That is because I no longer have leverage.
It is about getting rid of the grandfathered plans, plain and simple. I would just wish they were honest about it. I would love to see an actual normalized graph of data usage to see where the standard score for the top 5% really lies.
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Looks like AT&T is going to cover their breakup fee by feeing to death their customers...
Looks like AT&T is going to cover their breakup fee by feeing to death their customers...
Hmm? When I request a webpage the server sees this:
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[/FONT] Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.11 Safari/535.19
When an iPhone does it, it looks like something similar to this:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
I think that AT&T will likely (hopefully) respond by throttling down to EDGE speeds, similar to what T-Mobile does. Throttling the speed down to unusable levels I think qualifies as bad business practices.
It's better than what they're doing currently. And EDGE isn't THAT bad. I'm able to stream SiriusXM on my phone with a good EDGE connection. Sure it sucks when compared to 3G, but it will at least get you by. They're slowing users down to like GPRS speeds, which is simply unacceptable. They shouldn't be throttling you down to a speed that is similar to what you'd get on an old Palm Pilot phone.
I just got my free text message "ATT Free Msg: Your data usage is among the top 5% of users. Data speeds for this bill cycle may be reduced. Visit www.att.com/dataplans or call 8663447584."....now i am getting 14 k download and 800 k upload over 3G,
It was 2100 K down and 900k up.
This is ridiculous.
It was 2100 K down and 900k up.
This is ridiculous.
I am an old customer. I had att when they were att , then cingular, now back to att , 9-10 years of service.
This is what I get for all those years - punished because I am an old unlimited data customer. This is like a bad marriage, i am moving on.
My iphone 4 will make a nice ipod touch.
I will never again as long as i live sign an agreement with a wireless carrier.
i am not under contract currently.
Virgin mobile looks good right now.
If they throttle that, who cares....45.00 per month 1200 monutes, unlimited texts and data.
This is what I get for all those years - punished because I am an old unlimited data customer. This is like a bad marriage, i am moving on.
My iphone 4 will make a nice ipod touch.
I will never again as long as i live sign an agreement with a wireless carrier.
i am not under contract currently.
Virgin mobile looks good right now.
If they throttle that, who cares....45.00 per month 1200 monutes, unlimited texts and data.
I used 2.1 GB according to my online account.
Oh well, i had my number ported to Virgin Mobile 45.00 per month plan with 1200 min, unlimited text, unlimited data up to 2.5 Gb- then you are slowed to 256k. I do not care about data throttling at 45.00 per month but i do care when i am paying nearly 115.00 per month to att
Oh well, i had my number ported to Virgin Mobile 45.00 per month plan with 1200 min, unlimited text, unlimited data up to 2.5 Gb- then you are slowed to 256k. I do not care about data throttling at 45.00 per month but i do care when i am paying nearly 115.00 per month to att
virgin mobile (sprint network) works fine.here. the moto triumph android is a nice phone for prepaid
