I'm still fortunate to have the unlimited grandfathered plan. Even with that, I still use WiFi as much as possible and my recent monthly usage was in the 300MB range.
Using 22GB in one month (to me) on a phone is insane. What exactly do these people do on their devices to go through that much data in one month? It's non-stop Netflix Videos, youtube, probably even using it as their primary internet hotspot and connecting everything through it? What gives?
You're not "fortunate" to have the unlimited grandfathered plan. You're being suckered into overpaying for crappy metered service.
If you're in the SF area, T-Mobile offers better, faster, and REALLY UNLIMITED service for $80/month, including 7GB of tethering, unlimited international data and text roaming (calls are $0.20/minute).
About time. Sick of receiving the threatening text messages telling me I was about to hit the arbitrary 5GB "cap."
I can't imagine getting anywhere close to the new "cap," so this is a win. However, my plan to run a web server from my iPhone now looks more promising...
You are the kind of people who cause the networks to slow to a crawl, the few like yourself who abuse you data plan are ruining the networks.
I was on unlimited until 4 months ago. I had to change because I need to tether for being on call @ work. I had never exceeded 2 gigs before then, so I went with 3 GB. I have found that tethering is a huge data hog even with being very conservative and the amount of data it says I use significantly exceeds what the size of files the laptop I have is downloading. The only upside is that I was able to add a 2nd smart phone for a family member and net out to paying $5 per month difference with the discount they offer through my employer. And yet now we are both sharing that 3 GB limit so it gets very tight.
So, explain something to me. AT&T gets slapped with a $100 million fine for illegally throttling "unlimited" accounts, and they are STILL throttling? Where do they find people stupid enough to be their customers?
It all depends on how they advertised their plans, not that the word "unlimited" in no way means you can't adjust bandwidth. If you were in the field when WAN usage was very expensive and frame relay was king, you may recall how the cost varied depending on time of day, due to peak usage times. We don't even consider today that there is Unlimited/Unlimited/Limited connections, which are unlimited time for the leased lines (meaning no blackout hours or days), unlimited amount of data that can be transferred, up and/or down, in a given timeframe (as dictated by the contract), and limited bandwidth speed (often with a minimum guaranteed bandwidth with spiking for off times). I honestly don't miss those days.
I'm still fortunate to have the unlimited grandfathered plan. Even with that, I still use WiFi as much as possible and my recent monthly usage was in the 300MB range.
Using 22GB in one month (to me) on a phone is insane.
Then why the hell are you still on an "unlimited" plan? The Mobile Share plans are a much better value for your dollar, include more features, and is just overall much more attractive offering.
Holding on to an inferior plan (that you don't really use) just to stick it to AT&T is misguided...as they are ones screwing you.
Not to mention how AT&T is refusing to enable WiFi Calling on iPhone 5s even on iOS 9!!! Unlike T-Mobile and others. *sigh* AT&T also refuses to turn on HD Voice on non VoLTE calls, again unlike T-Mobile and others. AT&T sucks!!!
Sweet. My decision to keep my grandfathered plan looks better and better every day, particularly now that Band 30 is rolling out. Maybe one day AT&T will relent and let us tether, as well. After all, we're among the last who still needs to worry about minutes overages when we actually take phone calls.
I thought they weren't renewing them, forcing everyone off of them? That's one way to "solve" the problem.
My friend has one still with no signs of it going away, which is why I was asking. Rereading the article iTools like Verizon throttles all plans based on network congestion regardless of plan caps, which is a way to basically say they throttle everybody all the time in major urban areas anyway ...
Having experienced AT&T's throttling with the "grandfathered plan" I have to say it was absolutely unacceptable. AT&T sold an unlimited plan and while I could have lived with reasonable throttling, what they did was essentially render the data connection useless. I'm not talking about streaming high definition video here. Basic slow services like email were unusable. After 2GB, things weren't slow; they were broken. I am now paying half what I was paying AT&T and I'm getting fabulous service (97mbps down/27 up at my house) thanks T-Mobile.
Sweet. My decision to keep my grandfathered plan looks better and better every day, particularly now that Band 30 is rolling out. Maybe one day AT&T will relent and let us tether, as well. After all, we're among the last who still needs to worry about minutes overages when we actually take phone calls.
Your post made me laugh... Seriously. AT&T must have fabulous marketing to be able to make people happy to cling on to overpriced, underdelivering plans. I guess they can pay them well, the way they fleece their customers.
You are the kind of people who cause the networks to slow to a crawl, the few like yourself who abuse you data plan are ruining the networks.
I think this person was being facetious on the part about running a web server from the phone.
However, you're wrong to blame him for poor network performance and you're falling into AT&T's marketing ploy of pitting customer against customer as opposed to putting blame where blame is due -- on AT&T for oversubscribing its service and ignoring commonly accepted definitions of English words like unlimited.
No one tells YOU what you can do with the service you're paying to use, so why are you telling this person they can't do something with theirs? AT&T never has had a problem taking money for "unlimited" service, they only have problems actually providing it. Whose fault is that?
AT&T is the problem, not any individual customer thereof. One customer is not going to monopolize a cell site to the point of diminishing performance for everyone else.
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Jailbreakin is so 2013. Who wants it anymore? The risk of malware outweighs the benefit.
I have personally never jailbroken my iOS device(s), and don't want to, but someone who wants to run a web server on their phone will have to!
I'm still fortunate to have the unlimited grandfathered plan. Even with that, I still use WiFi as much as possible and my recent monthly usage was in the 300MB range.
Using 22GB in one month (to me) on a phone is insane. What exactly do these people do on their devices to go through that much data in one month? It's non-stop Netflix Videos, youtube, probably even using it as their primary internet hotspot and connecting everything through it? What gives?
You're not "fortunate" to have the unlimited grandfathered plan. You're being suckered into overpaying for crappy metered service.
If you're in the SF area, T-Mobile offers better, faster, and REALLY UNLIMITED service for $80/month, including 7GB of tethering, unlimited international data and text roaming (calls are $0.20/minute).
question:
using full bandwidth of the ATT network when "unlimited" was announced, how much data could you consume in a 24/7 month?
how does that compare to ATT 4G?
i am with the "ATT is still offering unlimited data" crowd. the speed limit is probably still faster than ATT's original speeds...
It all depends on how they advertised their plans, not that the word "unlimited" in no way means you can't adjust bandwidth. If you were in the field when WAN usage was very expensive and frame relay was king, you may recall how the cost varied depending on time of day, due to peak usage times. We don't even consider today that there is Unlimited/Unlimited/Limited connections, which are unlimited time for the leased lines (meaning no blackout hours or days), unlimited amount of data that can be transferred, up and/or down, in a given timeframe (as dictated by the contract), and limited bandwidth speed (often with a minimum guaranteed bandwidth with spiking for off times). I honestly don't miss those days.
there's a button for that, you know.
I'm still fortunate to have the unlimited grandfathered plan. Even with that, I still use WiFi as much as possible and my recent monthly usage was in the 300MB range.
Using 22GB in one month (to me) on a phone is insane.
Then why the hell are you still on an "unlimited" plan? The Mobile Share plans are a much better value for your dollar, include more features, and is just overall much more attractive offering.
Holding on to an inferior plan (that you don't really use) just to stick it to AT&T is misguided...as they are ones screwing you.
Jailbreakin is so 2009. Who wants it anymore? The risk of malware outweighs the benefit.
Fixed that for you.
Not to mention how AT&T is refusing to enable WiFi Calling on iPhone 5s even on iOS 9!!! Unlike T-Mobile and others. *sigh* AT&T also refuses to turn on HD Voice on non VoLTE calls, again unlike T-Mobile and others. AT&T sucks!!!
My friend has one still with no signs of it going away, which is why I was asking. Rereading the article iTools like Verizon throttles all plans based on network congestion regardless of plan caps, which is a way to basically say they throttle everybody all the time in major urban areas anyway ...
22? What a strange number. Why not 20 or 25?
They ran the numbers and it makes sense in terms of data usage, would be my guess.
You are the kind of people who cause the networks to slow to a crawl, the few like yourself who abuse you data plan are ruining the networks.
I think this person was being facetious on the part about running a web server from the phone.However, you're wrong to blame him for poor network performance and you're falling into AT&T's marketing ploy of pitting customer against customer as opposed to putting blame where blame is due -- on AT&T for oversubscribing its service and ignoring commonly accepted definitions of English words like unlimited.
No one tells YOU what you can do with the service you're paying to use, so why are you telling this person they can't do something with theirs? AT&T never has had a problem taking money for "unlimited" service, they only have problems actually providing it. Whose fault is that?
AT&T is the problem, not any individual customer thereof. One customer is not going to monopolize a cell site to the point of diminishing performance for everyone else.