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ATT is on right track

Ken6271

Jul 29, 2011, 7:32 PM
This will only make the experience better for all att data users. This is a smart thing to do. really there is no need for that much usage anyway with wifi being everywhere. No reason to have unlimited data plan anyway. unlimited is overrated and nobody should be streaming anything over cellular data network anyways. 🙄
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cheech004

Jul 29, 2011, 7:49 PM
right! you keep telling yourself that.
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Tofuchong

Jul 29, 2011, 8:24 PM
You, sir, are damaged.
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keithfrombm

Jul 29, 2011, 11:39 PM
Dude. Are you serious or just 46 years old? More and more media is becoming mobile, and who the f**k wants to tether themselves to their house to get decent Wi-Fi?? Cause you sure as hell aren't gonna find it at the golden arches. That crap is barely YouTube-capable.
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Jayshmay

Jul 30, 2011, 3:13 AM
Your right about more media becoming mobile. I have the FOX NEWS, CNN, and MSNBC Android apps on my Samsung Droid Charge. I get news alerts quite frequently, and I watch news videos quite often.
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island-guy

Jul 30, 2011, 3:53 AM
Seriously! At&t is dropping some serious coinage creating all of these hotspots that are throttled at 300 - 550 mbps everywhere i've used them. Maybe they are getting you used to being throttled back. Your point also about everything going data, and intensive enough to command technology like LTE, goes to show how illogical these data caps are.
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boggerscbshop

Jul 30, 2011, 7:37 AM
@ ken 6271, its people like you that started this whole money sucking tiered data thing. If the networks can't handle it the what junk equipment are they spending our hard earned money on?
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Ken6271

Aug 1, 2011, 3:17 PM
Im just saying that its hard to go over the caps anyway..the tiered pricing is reasonable...all smartphones come with wifi capable to lift the burden of the network...all carriers are not building there networks for the purpose to allow these types of data usage for unlimited. have you seen verizons tiered pricing vs att pricing..verizon pricing is horrible for tiered data. get used to it with mobile phones..going tiered pricing.
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keithfrombm

Aug 1, 2011, 6:26 PM
Everything in your post is blatantly false, or contestable as an actual matter of fact. You have much to fear, Mr. AT&T Salesman, when your network admits indirectly in its' presser that its' network is **** without acquiring another network. I'm optimistic: I believe the consumer will win this day. After this, I'm looking into Sprint as a serious replacement now. Come October, if my speed is throttled, I have no use for their data package. It's a glorified iPod at that point. I'll drop them and my 9 (!) lines and go to Verizon. All things being equal, at least the service is better.
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IvyLeagueZombies

Aug 2, 2011, 10:23 AM
Wait are you going to sprint or are you going to verizon?



And just how do you use 60 gb a month on a mobile device?
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analyst422

Aug 7, 2011, 2:03 PM
Good idea. Verizon's unlimited plans are awesome and will last forev...wait, what's that? Verizon's switching to tiered data this summer? Oh. My bad.
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Ken6271

Aug 1, 2011, 3:19 PM
There is even talk that dsl and cable companies may go tiers for data...
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