Comments on: If 2 GB is excessive, why is AT&T selling 3-GB mobile data plans?

By: stikman

stikman — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:31:46 +0000

if you never use up your 2 gig alotment give the remainder to me! ive been paying 30.00 a month to at&t since 2008, back when you would have thought me outrageous to pay such an amount while you could get by with your go phone. BWAHAHAHA !

By: KEVIN

KEVIN — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:06:39 +0000

WELL WELL WELL, A KID OUT HERE IN CALIFORNIA WENT TO COURT “SMALL CLAIMS” AND WON A $8500.00 CLAIM AGAINST ATT. FORGET CLASS ACTION . THE KID CLAIMED THAT ATT MADE HIM BUY A UNLIMITED PLAN WITH HIS IPHONE AND WAS THROTTLED BACK SO BAD HE COULD NO LONGER DOWN LOAD WEB PAGES ETC. SUE THE BASTARDS IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT AND HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS.GO FOR IT!!!!!.

By: nope

nope — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:28:42 +0000

they can defend the change however they like. they will continue to be wrong until they stop requiring data plans and boasting services that consume WELL over their limit with just normal use (tv on your phone, video streaming, netflix, thousands of apps, gps, pandora, etc.). Youve seen the commercials. If they want to throw around the words “blazing fast” and “high speed” they have to be able to back them up. If over 80% of the available phones require data plans (a crock of **** in its own right that i dont know how has not faced major legal action yet). If your whole ad campaign is based on selling MORE Smartphones that can do MORE things and require MORE data, logic would have it that you need to be prepared for doing just that.

By: Ben Branam

Ben Branam — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:41:51 +0000

AT&T is being greedy and dumb. I received the message last month at 2.1g here in Texas. I need my phone to work while I’m on the road, so my contact is coming up and when I buy a new phone it simply won’t be with AT&T again.

I don’t want to do business with a company that is trying to steal from me. If they would serve me like they did in the past I have no problem paying them.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:45:00 +0000

They are doing it to me too and I’m grandfather in. Two YouTube vids and then I get that message. Why make phones do all this stuff and then your not able to use them. Stupid . When my contract ends moving to another provider. If all providers do this then going back to the old. Text and talk.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:08:43 +0000

I got throttled on a tiered plan for going over on usage. They are throttling the unlimited customers at 2gigs to persuade them to jump on the tiered plan. I know several people with LTE phones changing the APN to a H+ setting once the throttling begins to still get good speeds and they are taking advantage of that unlimited data using over 20 gigs.

By: Rob Hooft

Rob Hooft — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:54:44 +0000

I don’t understand the 5% policy at all. One in every twenty users is in the top 5% bracket. And when they have been chased away, there are always new users in the top tier. A fixed “top x%” can not be excessive: from a statistical point of view there are other ways of pointing at extreme usage.

By: Mod

Mod — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:20:52 +0000

You know whats great about this? Companies like Bell, Rogers (Canada) and AT&T all claim about how the top 5% are using all the data and slowing everyone down.

Where the hell is all the documentation on this? Wheres the hard numbers? Let the people see it!

By: M D

M D — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:08:56 +0000

No doubt AT&T will soon begin to give refunds to the LOWEST 5% data users, since those users are saving AT&T money AND freeing up bandwidth for the top 5%. LOL, yeah, right.

By: John B.

John B. — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:11:07 +0000

Kevin,

Once again you point out the obvious with this article. I really hate to bash AT&T. However, they make it so easy when they pull rhetorical excuses out of their rears. I am amazed that this carrier has as many subscribers that it does. They have always been the masters of manipulation. We are fortunate that the FCC saw through this and denounced the Tmobile acquistion.

I hope people wake up and observe the direction of AT&T.

“AT&T is not responsible for consumer stupidity, but we can sure benefit from it”

John B.