AT&T Notifies Unauthorized Tetherers to Knock It Off
Just sell the data
Why are they selling access to a feature instead of just selling the data? Who would pay a monthly fee to use "messaging" or use "calling" on top of the per text rate or the per minute rate? Why not just charge for a data rate (like they do for laptop connect) and be done with that. If i want to use my 200mb or 2 GB or whatever anyway I want...what business is it of theirs. Kill the unlimited and kill the tethering fee and just let them pay per use.
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Exactly!! We really need a heavyweight like America Movil to come here directly (not as an MVNO!) to shake up these bozos. With 225 million customers (much larger than AT&T & Verizon COMBINED) & lots of revenue they could build out a massive 4G network, offer low prices (like they do at their fully-owned Straight Talk or Net10) and more services (tethering?, true UNLIMITED web?) & crush fools like AT&T.
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kingstu said:
Kill the unlimited and kill the tethering fee and just let them pay per use.
I had a customer come into my store because he was on Daily Data, you only get charged if you use it that day, and ran up a $93 dollar data charge. he said he down graded to the daily data play beacause it was cheaper but he used it everyday for a month at $3 a day. He then insisted I give him a credit.
So will that work or will everyone be better off paying the monthly charge?
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I strongly believe that people should pay for what they use and then be free to use it as they see fit. If I pay for 1000 texts then I use my computer to compose the texts should I pay a "tethering fee" for that? It's this 'unlimited' that is causing all the problems because it is like people bringing shopping bags to an all-you-can eat buffet. Much different than getting your food to go or taking some home from a regular restaurant.
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100% agree. Really if the cell carriers thought this out, the very best way to end this issue forever is to just toss out the ridiculous T&C's they have now and just sell us the data we want and charge what they want. I know it is their networks, just sell us the GB's each customer would need/want and leave it at that and let us use it ANY way we would like and on ANY phone we would like to use it on.
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