User: tether
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Hoping to escape "cell-hell" Montana....
Good grief! I thought nobody in the galaxy uses over 2GB eh A Fee & Fee? What consumer account would then need to shell out these obnoxious amounts of dough for all this data? The Dugger Family if they can manage to have 230 more kids? Cant wait to get out of "cell hell" Montana with the scummy duopoly of ATT & VZW only. You folks who have the option of Sprint & T-Mobile don't know how lucky you ...
GREAT News! Hoping TMO & Sprint stick it to BIG RED & BLUE!!
I have Verizon now. I do love their LTE Network where it exists & am grandfathered (for now) to unlimited data but wtih how dirty AT&T & Verizon have been going to these new COMPLETE RIP-OFF Data Share Plans & trying to coax us off unlimited, I think it is wonderful Sprint & T-Mobile are keeping data unlimited/unthrottled. I wish them all the luck in the world & hope they get a ton of customers from the Big 2. ...
Re: 1700 MHz markets left out
They (Cricket) are morons riding the "crapple" train. :lol:
Re: Scummiest thing I've ever heard of in the wireless industry! Hello Sprint!!!
I agree with you hand down on Sprints slower speeds. No doubt that ATT and VZW have the best, biggest and fastest data networks but what good is it if to use any if that data, you have to pay them a fortune every month. I mean to have and use a smartphone should not have to cost $150 to $200 a line, should it? From the way it is written, seems as though either mid summer or when ...
Scummiest thing I've ever heard of in the wireless industry! Hello Sprint!!!
Really Verizon? Despicable. Do you understand the meaning of "grandfathered"? I hate to admit it, but even AT&T "limiting unlimited" at 3GB than throttling to unusable speeds is more customer-friendly than this. WOW! So you are loyal to them for years & they stick it to their customers like this? Oh well, I guess if you actually use your smartphone & it's apps and need data more than voice or text, Verizon & AT&T are out. So is U.S. ...
Re: Sucks for Simple customers! Hello 2GB data cap!!
Agreed! Tracfone is ok for featurephone users but not smartphone users!
Re: All you should hear is cricket's chirping with their ridiculous data allotment
Yeah I heard De La Vega boasting about his value 300mb data plan for $20 on CNBC. What a dufus! IMHO, 300mb is a joke. I guess you at right though that this BS ATT data plan is actually worse than Cricket.
Sucks for Simple customers! Hello 2GB data cap!!
Surely Simple will follow Tracfones 2GB data limit like StraightTalk and Net10. I just left ST because after ten days and 1GB of data I got the robocall from Tracfone telling me "I am harming their network by using too much unlimited data and if it doesn't stop, my service will be terminated". I just went with Simple Mobile and canceled my ST line. I get better speeds with the $60 4G plan and should get 5GB of data ...
All you should hear is cricket's chirping with their ridiculous data allotment
Cricket is a joke! 1GB of data maximum! Who needs a smartphone with that ridiculous amount of data? Why do you need to have a fancy smartphone to barely have enough to check emails? They should stick to feature phones only. Boost, Virgin, StraightTalk, Net10, Simple Mobile, T-Mobile, MetroPCS Verizon and ATTs prepaid unlimited everything featurephone-only plans for $50 are better. I can't think of a worse deal than Cricket. Can't fathom how 6 million uninformed people ...
Re: Since you charge like VZW, why not just have them acquire USC?
I liked U.S. Cellular's prices and data plans before, not now. A contract is a contract no matter who it is with. I do respect when carriers will at least reduce it as you progress through it. Not sure what "rewards system" is or the overage protection/cap. Maybe they warn you by text or something when you get close to the limit? Seems any carrier should automatically do that for customers. The free battery ...
Since you charge like VZW, why not just have them acquire USC?
Good options & prices for us U.S. Cellular? With these prices & data tiers, I wonder why people wouldn't just go to Verizon or AT&T? Hopefully Verizon just gobbles them up because they are useless now to most consumers as a "value option". Heaven-forbid Sprint & T-Mobile ever fold or are acquired by Big Blue/Red, WE ARE SCREWED!!!
yep, let's let them merge into 1 or 2 companies!
Exactly. Let's also let them merge into 1 or 2 companies and charge us WHATEVER they want to. No problem. If anyone doesn't like it, START YOUR OWN CELL COMPANY THEN. Free & Open Markets should work exactly like this. Let's not stop here, let's have McDonalds buy every fast food chain & change that BS "$1 value-menu", to a "$100 value-menu" where they can finally make some money on that small fry! I tell you, I stay ...
Next news flash is AT&T to lose customers for raising prices.....
This guy is something else! Whining like a baby because he didn't get his way & help "increase" competition by allowing AT&T to acquire TMO. Now as a result of this defeat, AT&T customers will be punished. These customers have 3 other network choices & a host of MVNOs to choose from. They don't necessarily need AT&T direct. Then if AT&T chooses to mess with their MVNO's like Straight Talk/Net10 GSM, H20 & Red Pocket, maybe a giant like ...
Re: taxpaying public calls for ban on DOT idiocy.....
Well thanks JBlaze74! :)
Re: Its about time!!!
I support it -100000%
taxpaying public calls for ban on DOT idiocy.....
Geez! Another example of too many departments, services, bureaus, agencies, etc. in Washington. Really, can we start firing some of these people & eliminating some of these departments. Next some other idiot agency will try to mandate our oxygen intake & fine us if we breathe too often or offer us free oxygen tanks if don't don't take enough breaths. If you have nothing to do but sit around & come up with BS stuff, maybe ...
Idiots! How is that Windoze Phone 7 working for you? R.I.P. Nokia
I really, really loved Nokia. In my opinion, they always made the phones with the best signal strength (antennas) & battery life. Previous I had a Nuron with T-Mobile & a Nokia E5 with Straight Talk/ATT. Both were great, inexpensive smartphones. While I didn't like Symbian as much as I do Android I found I probably liked it as much or better than Windows Mobile. I could not believe when Nokia, the #1 maker ...
A fifth nationwide wireless provider IS best for the public FCC!!!!!
Why do they keep squashing or delaying fifth nationwide core networks/carriers? First Lightsquared now Dish. If Dish or anyone else has the spectrum and the desire to build a nationwide cell network, then the government should not only allow them but facilitate and expedite the process! More choices in wireless will keep pricing reasonable for us consumers and the constant competition among more core networks (not MVNOs) will also be extremely beneficial to all of us.
Heavy AT&T users should AOL a truly UNLIMITED LTE Data Plan on Ebay
I just checked and there are maybe 4 or 5 Ebayers auctioning off their Verizon unlimited data plans right now on Ebay. Some are including phones and some not but if you do need unlimited data, get a Verizon 4G LTE phone not a 3G. They "network optimize" 3G but LTE is completely unlimited. I use 10 to 15 gigs a month at 10-20 Meg speeds on both my lines with no overage charges, just $29.99 a month minus ...
how about increase the capacity of their network?
Is this an utter impossibilty with A Fee & Fee? If you can't handle your 100 million connected devices, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile would be glad to help them out. How is it bandwidth at AT&T "magically" increases when an app maker would pay them to completely unlimited? What a mystery, more like what a joke.
Re: I would feel better if
Maybe others arent glued next to wifi all day like you are? To someone that uses 100 Mb a month, you are a data hog. Maybe they should lower the throttle threshold to 100 Mb? Or......INVEST IN THEIR FREAKIN NETWORK!!!!!!!!
Good grief Verizon, not you too with anti-consumer policies!
AT&T does a lot of stupid things with data and their customers and I call them on it often. This IMHO is anti-consumer. I pay full price for my phones (unsubsidized) so I feel I should be allowed to do with it what I want like rooting, etc. I hope Verizon stays cool with customers still on grandfathered unlimited data or Im headed to Sprint. This is an anti-consumer move and a step in the wrong direction to want ...
Re: grass is glowing green here at Verizon I assure you!
So you and your guy friends spend a lot of time doing "things" with each other? Well I can see how you would be busy doing "things" with each other. I watch Netflix (each movie can be 1GB, hope you dont like trilogies with AT&T and your 2GB), use Tune-in Radio and the Sirius apps a lot. I go on 5 or 6 week long road trips across the nation per year and spend many weekends going to the ...
VZW link to data coverage map.....
Sorry my link above for VZW isn't working. Just go to verizon.com then click on "Explore", then click "Our Network & Coverage" and you will see their data coverage map showing 3G and 4G LTE coverages. You can further investigate your own area by clicking "Check Network Coverage".
Some FACTS for customers looking elsewhere (or AT&T Fanboys)
Here are FACTS. Up for discussion, but not debate.
2/29/2012
Verizon LTE- in 196 Markets
AT&T LTE- in 28 Markets
Verizon Data Coverage-(Map clearly shows almost entire network is 3G or 4G, no need to zoom in but you can if you want to, lol)
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/Cove rageLocatorCo ... »
AT&T Data Coverage-(Being the ETHICAL company they are, you have to click "data" then actually ZOOM in to see where exactly they have 4G, 3G and EDGE. You will clearly see a majority of their network is ...
Re: AT&T has the best phones & LTE network? Huh? You on crack?
OK Tofuchong, lol. I do like your comments most of the time so my bad. Retract Cobalt SS and replace with Fiat 500 Abarth vs Lamborghini Aventador. I actually apologize to Chevy for comparing it to AT&T too. SORRY Big bow-tie!
grass is glowing green here at Verizon I assure you!
Loving Verizon LTE unlimited data. I use over 10GB every single month on each of 2 lines. No throttle, no cap. Just unlimited 15-20MB download speeds (faster than Comcast's fastest speed offered in ABQ, NM of 16MB) for $29.99 a month each line minus a corporate discount. If you like 2GB caps and AT&T edzero, more power to you! People will say "well Verizon doesn't offer unlimited anymore". True, but anyone can ...
HERE are the FACTS you DUFUS!! Please save google.com as a favorite!
No. Sorry for commenting on your moronic claims. You right, AT&T is just FANTASTIC. They have LTE in 28 MARKETS TODAY 2/29/2012 and Verizon has it in 196 MARKETS TODAY 2/29/2012. These are there DATA COVERAGE MAPS TODAY 2/29/2012. If you want to keep living your delusion AT&T is somehow better that your thing but for all of us not in la-la land, here are FACTS.
Verizon Data Coverage-(Map clearly shows almost entire network is ...
Re: Fantastic! Fight these clowns who refuse to invest in their network
Your kinda like CNN then? One article saying AT&T doesnt suck quite as bad these days? OK? Let me post nationwide high-speed data coverage map of Verizon vs. AT&T and also post an LTE-only map. Verizon destroys AT&T the way Reagan destroyed Carter my man.
AT&T has the best phones & LTE network? Huh? You on crack?
That is so kind of AT&T giving that option to their customers they are screwing. Kind of like, do you want to drown or be shot? I guess facts seem to be optional here. Please, for the love of God, visit Verizon.com before you post here so you have the facts. Verizon had a VASTLY SUPERIOR LTE Network and a better smartphone selection as well, particularly LTE Phones. Comparing AT&T to Verizon is like comparing a Chevy Cobalt SS ...
at 1GB, some consider YOU a data hog
Some people would say you should be limited because you are a data hog using 1GB a month! Eventually enough people will be off unlimited or have left AT&T that you, at 1GB, will be throttled because you will be the top 5%. Sound different when it will be you, not "other" people affected?
Re: Fantastic! Fight these clowns who refuse to invest in their network
I think you are the frickin idiot! Look at a nationwide coverage of both and you will see more than half of AT&Ts coverage map is horsesh!t EDGE while nearly all of Verizons is 3G/4G LTE and will shortly be 100% LTE. Doesnt Verizon have LTE in about 200 markets now compared to ATTs 25 or so? Where in the h@ll do you get that AT&T spends more on their network than Verizon, post a link to a credible ...
Leave my Verizon alone Feds,at least they're spreading LTE out!
Why mess with Verizon? They have spectrum and they using it to spread their network out all over the country. They have more TRUE LTE (not bogus HSPA or 3.5G or WiMax) Coverage than all the other carriers combined and have plans to cover their ENTIRE nationwide 3G footprint by the end of 2013 with 4G LTE. By the end of 2013 AT&T will likely cover 50 major metropolitan cites and have a lot of excuses about ...
Fantastic! Fight these clowns who refuse to invest in their network
Glad people are taking it to them! I would be pissed at any carrier that engages in all these data shenanigans with their customers. I love how somehow their bandwidth magically increases to unlimited when app makers would pay them some money or how the cap is set to 2GB just under that lofty 3GB plan for the same dollar amount or how anyone who did use a certain amount of data previously was obviously tethering and ...
Re: Evil has been redefined!
The government did a heckuva job organizing our country to win World War I and II. Did a heckuva job landing a man on the moon. Would it be better if there was no government. I really despise partisan, seemingly blinded Republicans or Democrats. Your right Democrats always seem to want to give away stuff to people who don't want to work or expect everything (entitlement syndrome) & have the government oppressively controlling everything (did ...
Re: "think outside the box"
Spending a little bit of their massive profits on building out and improving their network is another way.......just saying. I know I'm in the AT&T Board of Directors meeting here so the idea of spending any money on their network sounds terrible, but just an idea.
Re: How is it always AT&T having these issues of network congestion?
Yes. Honesty is the first word that comes to mind when I think of AT&T. Threatening customers that prices will go up for everyone if we aren't allowed to acquire T-Mobile. Throttling "UNLIMITED" data customers to unusable speeds after using 2GB of data to force them to migrate to 3GB and up tiered plans. Telling Congress that allowing AT&T to acquire T-Mobile will actually "increase" competition in the wireless industry. Forcing a lot of people off of their unlimited ...
How is it always AT&T having these issues of network congestion?
Can't understand that? I had T-Mobile for 10 years and Verizon now for half a year. T-Mobile didn't seem to have network congestion problems and certainly Verizon doesn't. I've lived in Chicago, IL and now Albuquerque, NM. I've traveled to all 48 continental U.S. states and go on 5-6 road trips a year. I wonder how T-Mobile and Verizon escape these problems I always hear that AT&T and Sprint seem to have of an ...
More like ATT is the one always B!tch!n....
I wish they would SHUT UP already & stop screwing with their customers over data. What is with all the people always jumping to their defense and bashing other customers. I didn't realize AT&T's Board of Directors spend so much time on Phonescoop, lol. Maybe we shouldn't build another mile of roads or rails in this country. I mean...people will just use and abuse them & that would be awful. Maybe no airline should ever add ...
Re: Could Sprint have a new target ?
My thought is that if they wanted U.S. Cellular, they would have gone after them and not MetroPCS. U.S. Cellular, MetroPCS and Cricket will eventually get gobbled up. I always kind of hoped the three would merge to form a 5th nationwide carrier for us to choose from but that's incredibly doubtful.
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