AT&T Retools DataConnect Plans with Pay-As-You-Go Option
The world is going prepaid
Beware the prepay, beware the prepay.
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Azeron said:
I love the idea of no subsidies.
Do you love the idea of paying $500+ for a cell phone? Doesn't bother me much since I like to get unlocked phones from eBay and other venues but still to the average consumer (especially Americans) it wont go over well.
No carrier crippled phones. No need for expensive roaming costs--just get a local sim wherever you are. Plus prepaid means it is easy to buy a "disposable sim" so no one needs to know your main number. Prepaid is awesome.
Azeron said:
Cell phone manufacturers should sell directly to consumers and perform all trouble shooting and repairs. Then you wouldn't have liars calling in trying to get exchanged from a Tour to a Droid when there is no problem with their handset.
bringing the truth!!
Azeron said:
I am on the record in many places on this forum and others. This thing is broken. Carriers love to discount phones to lock consumers into contracts, but the consumers devalue the equipment and even have a sense of entitlement. Cell phone manufacturers should sell directly to consumers and perform all trouble shooting and repairs. Then you wouldn't have liars calling in trying to get exchanged from a Tour to a Droid when there is no problem with their handset.
True. Everybody wants a free iPhone. No doubt about that. I get it all the time.
I believe in EARNING a customer, is a customer is binded by a contract, a company has no motivation to keep that customer happy.
Azeron said:
I love the idea of no subsidies.
While I do mind the idea of no subsidies (c'mon...everyone loves their free phone), I surely do not mind the idea of no contracts. It's more more appealing to just go where you want.
I'm kinda curious when LTE comes around, for ATT it'll be much further in the future though, but since LTE will be 700mhz on both ATT & Verizon, if there will ever be handsets that will be able to be used on either carrier with 4G.
Jayshmay said:
The thing though about as you saying the option of going where you want, though I do have an unlocked/unbranded Nokia N95, the 3G will only work on ATT. All these carriers have different frequencies, it frinkin irks me.
I'm kinda curious when LTE comes around, for ATT it'll be much further in the future though, but since LTE will be 700mhz on both ATT & Verizon, if there will ever be handsets that will be able to be used on either carrier with 4G.
Hey, spectrum is finite. That can't be changed.
Jayshmay said:
Yeah, I know. It just makes it that much more difficult if a person has an unlocked/unbranded phone and wants to take it to another GSM carrier, 3G won't work. Only EDGE.
Pick your carrier carefully, Padawan.
kingstu said:
They could make phones that work on AT&T and T-Mobile 3G frequencies. There is the unlocked Pharos Traveler which can work on one of AT&T 3G frequencies as well as T Mobile 3G. The technology is there for it work on CDMA and GSM and rumor has it the new iphone will have that capability. It is just that telcos are what the phone makers try to please and it appears in the USA that they don't want a device that will work on their competitors 3G network. But if Apple does that then maybe others will start to follow. For WCDMA it is not that hard to have a phone that could work on both TMobile and AT&T 3G frequencies.
I looked at the Pharos, and it doesn't have AWS on it. So it won't work for T-M...
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STEELRIK said:
Yes, reality hurts,I use prepaid & the rest of the world too.(60% I suppose)
Liar. Your on postpaid. Most ppl don't use prepaid.
Not to mention that the carrier can do what they want with rates like cable companies do now. A contract protects you from all of that.
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