AT&T Just Pushed This Long Time Apple To His Breaking Point!

[samcraig]

They are either wrong or lying. AT&T would have cut them off long before that. The "unlimited" plan actually has a 5 gig soft limit - AT&T will let you slide over that a bit, but you will be getting a phone call or a letter in the mail if you hit 6 gigs, and I'm pretty sure that by 10 gigs you would be shut down.

This isn't accurate.

 

[Stealthipad]

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I and AT&T are GLAD to be rid of you! Their plan was never intended for this type of usage.

Good bye and the AT&T network will be better to see you gone!

I am a firm believer that you should pay for what you use and not pay for what you do not use.

 

[cmvsm]

I and AT&T are GLAD to be rid of you! Their plan was never intended for this type of usage.

Good bye and the AT&T network will be better to see you gone!

I am a firm believer that you should pay for what you use and not pay for what you do not use.

And the bait and switch that occurred over a 6 week period has no relevance right? You are a power, oil, and credit card company's wet dream as a customer. I'll bet you have "Sit back, shut up, and take it" as a vanity plate.

 

[Chimera-se]

And the bait and switch that occurred over a 6 week period has no relevance right? You are a power, oil, and credit card company's wet dream as a customer. I'll bet you have "Sit back, shut up, and take it" as a vanity plate.

Lol

 

[Dapper]

You pay as you go no matter whether it is electricity, water or data. Some of us use less and some use more and pay more what is the point?
I agree I did like the idea of the flexibility mentioned earlier but that is now ended. Time to move on.

 

[toddybody]

Disjointed

Wow guys...one person's bitching elicited such an emotional + LONG WINDED thread? For the complainers, go rent "Dear John" and cry at home.

 

[tigres]

I was in the hospital all day waiting on a relative's surgery. This was the first time I've needed to use mywi on my JB iPhone for long stretches of time. I was surprised at how fast I racked up 1gb of data, with only about 1 hour out of the day spent on any sort of streaming. Really opened my eyes on this issue.

People who consider this "over usage" have really been brainwashed by the corporate PR machine. (or, just possibly, are part of it). We'll see how superior you feel when your regular broadband at home gets capped and metered all to hell too. It's coming. They want you to blame these mystical overusers, not them, and it's working.

Agreed- but their brains are being washed so they can't see the forest through the trees.

The point is not that you can still get unlimited, the point is they have taken away their no-contract claim. If you want unlimited, you now must maintain continuous service whether you need it or not. That works out to way more than a dollar a day. If I had planned to buy unlimited for, say one month out of the year at a cost of $30, it will now cost $360. It's not a matter of a dollar a day as you so arrogantly put it, it's money for nothin, and false advertising.

This. it's forcing you to re-up every month- not as sold.

5.8GB? Seriously?

"Stream to your hearts content" "Unlimited is truly, Unlimited"- AT&T

Now I know why Android users are so happy with regard to choice of devices and carriers.

Feeling like a big bait & switch was just pulled by a company with bigger market value than Microsoft. Feeling like a chump for supporting Apple for all these years.

Will consider very carefully other options before upgrading my iPhone to whatever comes out next (even though I'm eligible for a full subsidized upgrade; its been 2 years).

I am currently thinking of Android right now myself.

I understand the philosophical issue, but it's $1 a day to receive unlimited data and push email on your iPad. I challenge you to provide a single service known to mankind of such need, value, and convenience for a buck a day.



BJ

Feeding a hungry person on the planet.

So many early adopters are now locked into $30 every month in order to preserve the unlimited data. If you lapse it's gone.

This

Subject to change, but change within a month of release is a pretty underhanded thing to do. Certainly within their rights, but a crappy move none-the less.

And frankly, yeah, I'd be very happy with a higher priced unlimited option in the mix. I'm one of those folks that specifically waited for the 3G so that I could have the option to cut an 3G UDP on and off when I travel (as I am well past dealing with shoddy hotel WiFi options). Now, I can't do that.

Like others, I"m not yelling and screaming about this, but I'm just disappointed in the way the whole thing worked out. It was the final nail in the coffin of the AT&T/Apple alliance as far as my cell phone goes. I'm going going to be making the transition to a Android phone sometime this summer. Just don't know which one yet

Yep, it's all in the way it was/is being handled.

Its called capitalism at its crisis:

As in: we take from you what we can.....

Stop blaiming ATT or Apple! You want a "free market"? Then shut up. The rich always takes it from the poor. And if in crisis: they always try to take even more.

It is amazing to see ppl not getting the consequences of their believes...

How about facing the facts?

What???

Maybe, but you've missed the point entirely. The point is that AT&T and Apple made a 'deal' if you will with early adopters, dangling this $30 unlimited deal as the cat's meow when this thing was launched 6 weeks ago. Once all of the early adopters have been scooped up and things have slowed a bit, AT&T pulled the plug and changed the game, thus eliminating the casual unlimited plan. This was the plan all along, and it really stinks as a business move.

Not that I thought it would do any good, but I wrote to that nob Randall Stephenson who was threatening cease and desist orders to those sending more than 2 emails to the idiot.

I may not cancel my iPad subscription, but I do plan on moving my phone and internet service away from AT&T. If its not Florida Power or the oil companies, or now AT&T, there's always some monopolistic organization that just keeps ripping people off and lying while they are doing it. Just chaps my A$$.

Chaps many A$$'s me thinks...

Oh, it's the "philosophy" that's bothering people. It's the "ethical argument" that people have to talk about.

Me? I just pay my measly $1 a day and am happy as can be for two reasons:

1. I get all the data I want without a care in the world.

2. The selfish pigs streaming 5GB of data a month and slowing down the network for everyone finally get what's coming to them.

BJ

Posted from my McMansion

But your an elitist, and we poverty stricken people can't afford $500/ month for data like you. Your way above our pay-grade.

 

[Chimera-se]

Can I stream "Dear John" from somewhere or would it bog down the network too much?

 

[jeffy777]

I was in the hospital all day waiting on a relative's surgery. This was the first time I've needed to use mywi on my JB iPhone for long stretches of time. I was surprised at how fast I racked up 1gb of data, with only about 1 hour out of the day spent on any sort of streaming. Really opened my eyes on this issue.

People who consider this "over usage" have really been brainwashed by the corporate PR machine. (or, just possibly, are part of it). We'll see how superior you feel when your regular broadband at home gets capped and metered all to hell too. It's coming. They want you to blame these mystical overusers, not them, and it's working.

Great post.