AT&T to Officially Mandate Data Plans for All Smartphones
Here's the real deal.
Sprint's required it for a while, Verizon for about a year or so, and T-Mobile started a couple months back.
😲 #2. What in the hell would you want a damn data phone for, unless to go on the internet. If you're one of the stupid sheep out there, that buys a phone for it's sole fact of "everyone else has one I want one too" you should be required to shoot a .12 gauge with your foot, through your brain.
😲 #3. Data Phones, are VERY VERY expensive at retail costs. EVERY consumer wants data phones CHEAP. do you think the wireless carriers really pay NOTHING for the blackberry you got for free yesterday? NO. how do they recouperate costs for t...
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but they tell you, "well you came in our store to shop so everyone that comes in here has to buy a bag even though they dont need it or want it"
you say "well... why?"
" well sir, because you are coming in here and we have to pay money for electricity and water and buy new equipment. you buying only milk is making us loose money. so now we are forcing everyone to buy a bag of oranges with their purchase so we can make more money."
you would be ok with that? so now you have to go to Globe or wal Mart or AppleTree so you dont h...
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some people dont want data service and dont expect to pay for it because they DONT want it
Whether or not you WANT the internet is irrelevant. Expect to pay the price for what you buy.
ur logic doesnt make sense. thats like saying i want a chocolate chip cookie but dont want the chips...
its called common sense. u dont want data DONT GET A DATA PHONE!
easy
why u gonna have a pda or blackberry and not get data with it? if you wanna do that get a razr v3, thats like somebody gettin an iphone just to use as a phone, its retarded!
That is why your argument fails. If you don't intend on using the phone for internet browsing/email, then get a dumbphone. If you intend to use net/email, get a smartphone.
Your analogy would actually be more accurate with the following:
Customer: Hi, I notices outside that you were offering free milk with the purchase of oranges.
Employee: Why yes we are, the total comes to ____
Customer: No, I don't want the oranges, I ...
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2: I am in total support of people getting smartphones without data providing they pay the higher cost of the phone. What I am against is people wanting the phone for the price with data but refusing to pay the data.
3: The person I am replying to is one of those people who thinks she "deserves" a phone for 199, even if she refuses to pay for the data that allows the company to offer it for that price.
In my example, the MILK was the smartphone, the oranges were the data package. If yo...
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geminices said:
😲 #2. What in the hell would you want a damn data phone for, unless to go on the internet.
I't a tool, not a toy. It's got as many uses as I want, from reading e-books to running the software that I write for it. The only times I might use data features, I'm within wifi range.
If you're one of the stupid sheep out there, that buys a phone for it's sole fact of "everyone else has one I want one too" you should be required to shoot a .12 gauge with your foot, through your brain.
Ditto for those who think a smartphone is only useful for the Internet. Rocks, glass houses.
EVERY consumer wants data phones CHEAP.
You say that...
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Blah, blah. AT&T wants to raise prices, and chose to leech off smartphone users like myself, instead of doing it accross the board. Probably because smartphones are on the news as the "big cash cow of the recession".
That was your best defense...blah,blah,blah?
You know the retail cost of a LG Neon (a consumer device)? $249.99. And it's a relatively new device. You know the retail of a Blackberry Bold? 649.99, And it's knocking on the door of almost a year old now. How much is an LG Neon after rebates a t a coporate store? FREE. That's a 249.99 cost the company recoups from charging for a plan. How about that Bold? $149.99. That's $500 that company has two years to recoup that cost, and how do they do it? They charg...
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In a way it is sort of ATT's Fault. They waited a long time before they started offering feature phones with full keyboards that weren't Blackberry/Winmo.
Don't be surprised if Sprint follows suit with ATT on this though. I doubt they like losing money on giving away smartphones without any data attached. Hopefully they'll do it like Verizon instead, and grandfather in the devices instead of just current plans though.
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