And the hits just keep coming in>> http://www.dailytech.com/ATT+May+Fi...o+Much+of+Its+Unlimited+Data/article17088.htm
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AT&T may start to fine Iphone users
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Cratermaker
Charter Member
I love the picture in the article.
cheezyflier
Charter Member
the really neat part is how it will have no effect on me what so ever, because i wouldn't own one if someone tried to give it to me 
the really neat part is how it will have no effect on me what so ever, because i wouldn't own one if someone tried to give it to me
What he said!
OBIO
I'd own one, I enjoyed having a touch screen phone I had through my former job. But there is no way in hell I would use AT&T as the service.
I am also one of the privileged few (blessed) who owns one, I enjoy the touch screen and all the crazy features it has... :isadizzy:
Yeah, I know what he meant. I wouldn't own one even if someone were to try giving it to me.
I hate cell phones. We have one...a pre-paid Tracfone that we have had for 5 plus years. No camera on it, no keyboard on it, no video screen on it. Simple phone with a power button, buttons to dial the number we want to call. A phone......not a phone/camera/TV/computer/video game/dating service/GPS/fortune teller/LIFE. We have it for emergency use, for piece of mind when we go to Walmart at 2 in the morning (the only time I can stand being in Walmart...the Walmarts here are virtually empty at 2 am). It is now December 10th, and our phone has not been turned on since the middle of November. No one knows the number to call us on our cell phone...no point in anyone having the number since we only turn it on when WE want to make a quick call. Heck, we don't even know our cell phone number...and we've had the same number on it for the entire time we have had it.
Every three months, we add 3 months of service time to the phone at a cost of 30 dollars. We make maybe one phone call a month....so each call is costing us 10 bucks...really a waste of money. But, it is an expense that we will continue to pay...now that winter has hit and we have our first snow fall, Deb will insist that I take the phone with me everytime I leave the house...just in case I have car trouble.
OBIO
traindriver98
Charter Member
I too have a pre-paid phone. I use it mostly as a phone book, but otherwise," It's a phone people, talk to me, don't text me."
Navy Chief
Senior Member
My sister has an I-phone, and lives in Indy. I sent her this article, but don't know if it affects her or not. But I DO know she uses that phone a LOT.
The ONLY reason I even have a cell phone is when I travel, which isn't often. There isn't cell phone coverage where I live. I have to drive 15 minutes to even pick it up.
NC
The ONLY reason I even have a cell phone is when I travel, which isn't often. There isn't cell phone coverage where I live. I have to drive 15 minutes to even pick it up.
NC
Hey OBIO,
My daughter has a Tracfone as well, (she had a blackberry once - her dad paid for it and she is only 8 years old). I suggested we cut the blackberry, because she doesn't need it.... it took him a year to really cut her phone, but for his peace of mind, I purchased her a tracfone, It is always off (especially at school) we use it only when we travel... and emergency.... I noticed that every month, they send a free 68 minutes/units to the phone line - that is between last days of every month and the first days of the next month.
Try turning it on between the 27th and the 5th.... that's the days they send a free... the last one I received was 11/30/09....
The phone she has is good for a year, right now she has 198 service days and 515.10 minutes.... I started with 60 something minutes, however, at the end of the 198 days, if we do not use the minutes it will disappear
This is just crazy.. Leave it to a cell phone giant to come up with this.
Another words, they cant fix it, they wont back their promise. Instead, they will make more money off of the guys that are using the devices under their contracts legally to do what they bought these things for.
Their fines will generate tons of profit. Some people will probably be fined that didnt do this, as I know how cell phone companies work.
I imagine that att make so much money that the upgrade bill they talk about, which is probably bloated, is a drop in the bucket compared with what the make.
This shows you that att cannot handle the success of iPhone and another carrier should be picked. This shows you also that att couldnt run with the ball and grow with the giant. They want to remain a small, antiquated system, and that should show Apple they need to drop att like a hot potatoe and just come out with their own wireless service...
Bill
Another words, they cant fix it, they wont back their promise. Instead, they will make more money off of the guys that are using the devices under their contracts legally to do what they bought these things for.
Their fines will generate tons of profit. Some people will probably be fined that didnt do this, as I know how cell phone companies work.
I imagine that att make so much money that the upgrade bill they talk about, which is probably bloated, is a drop in the bucket compared with what the make.
This shows you that att cannot handle the success of iPhone and another carrier should be picked. This shows you also that att couldnt run with the ball and grow with the giant. They want to remain a small, antiquated system, and that should show Apple they need to drop att like a hot potatoe and just come out with their own wireless service...
Bill
cheezyflier
Charter Member
isp's did the same thing. "get awesome speed, get cable internet"
then once we started making use of the speed, they said "woah!!! your using too much bandwidth" and now we all have capped service or pay too much for the unlimited service we already had.
follow the $$. we are talking about all the same people, running the same scam they learned when the were just cable television providers.
i won't participate in those games
then once we started making use of the speed, they said "woah!!! your using too much bandwidth" and now we all have capped service or pay too much for the unlimited service we already had.
follow the $$. we are talking about all the same people, running the same scam they learned when the were just cable television providers.
i won't participate in those games
Wittpilot
Warbird Guru
I can completely understand why some like Obio have no real use for it... But one thing that is super nice about the iPhone and other smart phones... are the little add-ons you wouldn't think about, like a GPS locator... I'm NEVER lost...and I can switch that to satelite view if need be and it gives live traffic updates for the bigger cities... I do talk on the phone while driving, but never in congested areas, or if the roads are busy/icy/ wet.... I also love having email right there too, and eBay!!! I've bought a few things "on the go"!
-witt
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