Thread: AT&T Cuts Unlimited Data Plan

I even work in the tech industry and get along fine with out a smartphone. Having internet on your phone is a luxury so you have to pay for it. What pisses me off is text is not considered data which is just BS. I go with the $5 per month 200 text messages plan as long as I don't have a text happy GF. I hate texting anyways. .... with a burning passion.

This is old news, This leaked out on DSLREPORTS.COM like a couple months ago.

But remember boys and girls they offer coverage to 97% of america.

Its the kind of crappy coverage in question.

Originally Posted by psychonitrous

I even work in the tech industry and get along fine with out a smartphone. Having internet on your phone is a luxury so you have to pay for it. What pisses me off is text is not considered data which is just BS. I go with the $5 per month 200 text messages plan as long as I don't have a text happy GF. I hate texting anyways. .... with a burning passion.

So because you don't like texting, you think they should charge more for it or categorize it differently so they can charge more? I didn't initially care for texting when I first entered the market, but now I find it very useful and quite efficient in a lot of circumstances; especially since I own my own business (and am in the process of starting another one).

Don't text if you don't like it

Originally Posted by rock_lobster

So because you don't like texting, you think they should charge more for it or categorize it differently so they can charge more? I didn't initially care for texting when I first entered the market, but now I find it very useful and quite efficient in a lot of circumstances; especially since I own my own business (and am in the process of starting another one).

Don't text if you don't like it

I am saying the price on texting plans is outrageous as in way too high considering text takes very very minimal bandwidth. And it is nigh impossible to keep girls from texting. So I guess I could stop texting and live a lonely lonely life.
I dislike texting because it takes longer to text something than it would be to just call them and talk. Maybe I need to get a full size roll up keyboard for my phone so I can type aquatically.

Originally Posted by psychonitrous

I am saying the price on texting plans is outrageous as in way too high considering text takes very very minimal bandwidth. And it is nigh impossible to keep girls from texting. So I guess I could stop texting and live a lonely lonely life.
I dislike texting because it takes longer to text something than it would be to just call them and talk. Maybe I need to get a full size roll up keyboard for my phone so I can type aquatically.

My bad, I guess I misunderstood your post.

Sometimes it's just funner to text I guess. You don't have to deal with the face to face stuff when you don't want to. Like when I have a question for my colleague (a CPA) Instead of calling her while she's busy, she can just send me a quick text with the answer. Once you do it enough, you get so quick that it's actually more efficient to text than to call for certain issues.

Not to mention if you're at a party and you are trying to get other people there, you don't have to sit there and take a call every 2 seconds. But maybe that's just me.

The reason I dislike it as someone else said, once it is common place for cell phones and people start accepting it, what will stop broadband companies from doing the same thing? They already want to do it but have either been shot down or are hesitant to move forward because of the public outcry that they have already received.

More and more people are watching videos online instead of going with standard cable with sites like Hulu, Youtube, and Netflix becoming more popular and easier to stream videos and shows at the users convenience so it is not like it'll just affect gamers.

I dislike the whole lot of it. And unless people start protesting more or other alternatives become available, what else can we do?

Originally Posted by Keiron

And unless people start protesting more or other alternatives become available, what else can we do?

Start your own cellphone service provider. If there really is a profitable market to be served by truly unlimited data plans, then you should have no problem recouping your investments.

It's a glorious, wonderful capitalist market out there. Either accept the service already being provided, or provide your own and reap the untapped potential.

Draco

Originally Posted by draco7891

Start your own cellphone service provider. If there really is a profitable market to be served by truly unlimited data plans, then you should have no problem recouping your investments.

It's a glorious, wonderful capitalist market out there. Either accept the service already being provided, or provide your own and reap the untapped potential.

Draco

That makes perfect business sense, but who has that type of capital to start a company like that?