User: GeeksAreBest
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Re: Is this a Joke?
Actually, it's absorbing an entire new network. You think AT&T's current staff + T-Mobiles current staff will be able to support that transition entirely? They might cut store jobs but T-Mobile is already doing that because they can't afford to pay the employees anymore...so yeah. Stores might get cut but there are other jobs. Maybe they'll save the T-Mobile centers and cut out the indian and phillipine outsourcing (hopefully).
You never know till the details get all laid out.
Re: I love
The reason no one told you about the changes is it's usually a need-to-know basis. This phone is pretty basic and you'd find out about it maybe a day or two before the launch date if it's set to be a major player in the phone line up.
This one is decidedly not. =P
Re: Well
The per-minute rate isn't AT&T's charge, its a service fee that's passed straight through to the cust from whatever the supporting int'l carrier charges.
Companies that have connections like T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom get better rates for being buddy-buddy. (Or subsidiary and owner)
Re: The Problem with Verizon's "Restriction"
Actually, they are limiting the speed in which you can use your unlimited amounts of data. There's a soft cap, not a hard cap line the tier plans.
Re: Throttling
T-Bone is right, one thing everyone seems to miss is that there are people out there who use a LOT of data. I'm talking like 80 to 100+ gigs a month. *Those* people are why AT&T and Verizon have put a soft cap on the data usage. Sprint and T-Mobile both already have soft caps. T-Mobiles is 5gb and Sprint's is 10gb but they just cut the data speeds, not actually cut out entirely.
I watched an entire 6 seasons ...
Re: Thank you States (& DoJ)! Now America Movil, PLEASE buy TMO!
No, they just happen to own 70% of the market share in Mexico under Tercel, so there really isn't much *choice* for many of them, huh? Isn't that exactly what you're trying to prevent here in the US? A controlling company thats very existance limits your choices?
Sounds backward to me..."Let's give a company known for shoddy business practices and controlling the majority of other countries wireless markets a better foothold in the U.S. in order to keep another company ...
Re: Thank you States (& DoJ)! Now America Movil, PLEASE buy TMO!
America Movil is a crap company. If they purchase T-Mobile they'll destroy it much more efficiently than AT&T could.
Re: Better Networks?
Actually, the last consumer reports thing where AT&T was ranked bottom and Sprint and T-Mobile were ranked near the top had a ton of articles on workers doing the surveys who had been approached by Sprint and T-Mobile representatives and given goodwill "gifts", now I cant find any of the articles anywhere even though I know they existed because I'd read three or four of them about a week after the Consumer Reports stats went public.
Re: i agree with ATT !
One thing is...about the same time that AT&T's overall bog-down happened is when T-Mobile stopped using AT&T partner cov. and visa versa. As a whole they did great. Individually, both companies suffered. My brother has T-Mobile and has a city map of where he lives and has streets and zones marked down where he cant get coverage anymore (He's a courier so needs to know areas.) and has had a huge problem with cov. since the two companies seperated ...
Re: The Answer is Simple...
This has nothing to do with either of them.
AT&T randomly throws out bonus minutes. It costs them nothing, and keeps people happy.
How is this so evil again?
Re: Monopoly
You should look up "Monopoly".
Yes, they'll be the only large GSM provider but no matter how you slice it, AT&T is *still* going to be the single largest GSM provider. If T-Mobile slices up the entire company or sells to Sprint, who's a CDMA provider...AT&T is in the same position. Just lower by however many providers.
Honestly, the merger changes nothing. Either way, if DT is selling...they'll sell and then AT&T is the only major GSM provider.
You get where ...
This is news because...?
We already knew they'd be divesting markets, this happens every merger/acquisition.
Re: Solution for AT&T
They've been doing this for a while. Free credits for things, free handsets, free microcells, etc. All that is *def* not helping their profit margin.
Re: YES!!!!
You act like the T-Mobile girl doesn't like the attention from AT&T. Which is totally the opposite. She wants it. She neeeeds it, and if it's not AT&T then it'll be someone else. :twisted:
Re: Target is even lower @ $49.99
Those places also sub-contract you so that if you change your plan within the first 6mo. w/o using their services you'll have to fork out up to $250 (most of the third party contracts are like that.)
Re: Spell check dude...
That or you know...English might not be his first language and he's smack dab in the middle of learning or has basic understanding.
Not everyone, everywhere has English as a primary language or has had the time to be fully taught all the in's and out's of English spelling.
Re: The law breaking the law
No, when you break your own home phone over the face of your significant other...then you go to jail.
In all reality though...trolling?
Your protest of law enforcement holds no ground here considering it was BART who broke the law and BART is in no way, shape or form a branch of law enforcement.
Re: Money talks
Right. Because T-Mobile selling to a CDMA carrier isn't creating a monopoly already?
Re: What a deal!
The thing is...unlimited is unlimited but that arrangement was before people figured out how to download torrents to phones or full-size games to phones. I have a friend of mine at work here who rooted his phone and figured out how to get a full (though modified) copy of Diablo II: LoD onto his phone over the air. He did this with Starcraft and one of the original Warcraft games. That's easily 30gb of data downloaded in a few ...
Re: What a deal!
Verizon already soft caps the heaviest users. Their top is 2% though, not 5%.
As far as data usage...I had a guy who used 90gb of data in a month. I can watch netflix whenever I want, stream pandora whenever I want and still make sub-5GB on my iPhone...90gb is stupidly excessive and frankly, users like that deserve to but cut off at the waist.
Yeah, unlimited is unlimited but abusing it doesn't do anyone any good.
Re: What a deal!
There's no distinction? There most certainly is.
One is a data connect card, meant to provide a computer with data access.
The other is a phone.
Your post really had nothing to do with the topic at all other than to voice a half a**ed opinion that only marginally had something in common with the article simply because "you use data". You aren't even effected by this. You have a hard cap meanning at 2GB and 5GB respectivly for each service, you ...
Re: Law suit time
Is it AT&T's fault she only used 166mb? No. Verizon's plans are a little bit dumb honestly but what can you do?
You could easily change down to the $15 200mb plan if you're with AT&T, save yourself some money on her usage.
As far as your usage, it doesn't "caP" it's a "soft cap" meaning it cuts the speed down. You can still run the internet as much as you want, it just wont be at 4/5mpbs.
Re: This may sound like I'm defending AT&T's position.....
I use my phone strictly as a consumer. No app development, nothing like that. I streamed 6 seasons of a show on netflix along with a fair share of Pandora usage (literally any time I drove because the radio stations here suck.) and I cleared *barely* over 3gb that month on an iPhone which are supposedly data hogs.
Josh is right though, we as consumers are responsible for the abuse of the data. Even an all-you-can-eat buffet will shut down ...
Re: The Truth:
You have no idea what you're talking about and you've been all over this article spewing bile from your mouth without having a clue what's going on. All you do is say things that sound good because you're angry without really even knowing how this will effect you.
In other news, you skipped the two or three articles that were from the start of last year where AT&T put $19+ billion into their network. And the data transfer rate is ...
Re: Can't
But it's not a change in service. Nowhere in your contract does it state that you can expect "____" data transfer speed.
Re: What a deal!
You do know you're talking about a 5gb connection for a DATA CONNECT CARD. NOT a smartphone?
An unlimited data plan...has no 5GB cap.
Idiot.
Re: Yay
I fail to see how *anyone* claims that the merger violates that Anti Trust act. The company is going to BOMB anyways. Whether it's via acquisition or dissolution. It will still be gone.
One less company for competition.
Re: Much ado about nothing.
Jay, I think your Auto-correct is malfunctioning. o.o
Re: Much ado about nothing.
"You so dumb!" I think you missed an "'re" in there champ.
As far as "swallowing T-Mobile" it would happen anyways. Sprint doesn't need T-Mobile, they need the customer base. Sprint gets no benefit out of the purchase other than some blocks of spectrum and the cust. base. Sprint wouldnt be using the existing services considering they wont be using LTE so all the LTE rollout that they've already done will be useless and probably trashed.
I enjoy the use of ...
Re: nice!!
My bad, noticed the Behold had a slightly earlier launch date than the Eternity. Still in 2008 though along with the Delve.
Re: nice!!
You do realize that the iPhone is older than the samsung touch screen phones right?
The first full touch screen phone Samsung produced was the Eternity in 2008. The original iPhone was released June 29th, 2007.
Re: Why is it I fear logic won't prevail
AT&T hasn't invested a cent in the network?
I remember an article here that said something about what? $18-19 billion into the network by the end of 2011? That's an awful lot of non-existant cents.
Re: These kinds of business tactics
I think they just don't care really at this point.
I enjoy reading these...
Since all these monkeys are jumping on AT&T/T-Mobiles back when they have *no* control or say over the merger/acquisition. What's the point in voting yes or no when your vote has no real effect?
Re: How do I claim?
If you didn't even know the lawsuit was there how do you think you should collect?
YEAH!
I want my $19.50 biotches!
Re: AT&T ISN'T PLAYING AROUND...
I've never had anyone call in and say "You're doing a great job! Keep it up! (Nor have I had the inclination to do so myself for any company, no matter how pleased I was with them.) I have called up to b*tch though...so...makes sense Paul.
Re: AT&T ISN'T PLAYING AROUND...
I read an article a while back from the WSJ about a big hoo-ah where some smaller carriers bribed the CS reviewers with pretty decent sums. They didn't falsify information per se, but their "random" selection of AT&T customers were about 80% iPhone users from NY, NJ and SF which are the three largest congested areas. It smudged the #'s a little but for the life of me I can't find anything about the orig. article. Not even on ...
Re: Cool... the city I live in.
What do you mean "now this."
AT&T already owns the majority of the shares. This just changes it from "Convergys" to "AT&T". They already *use* the assets, they just arent reportable as company owned despite all but owning them anyways.
Re: Game On!
I love how you all think this is being stepped up, or "the heat" being brought down on AT&T...this is all stuff they would do anyways. This is non-news. This is routine.
The only thing that hasn't been was the hearing with lawmakers, which apparently didn't phase the FCC a whole lot.
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