Text 61078, 42 rader
Skriven 2010-06-04 09:45:05 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 61073 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: AT&T new data plans
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On 03-06-10 5:55 PM, mark lewis -> Charles Scaglione wrote:

 CS>> It appears that AT&T has just changed their data plans and fees for
 CS>> both the iPhone and iPad. An article appeared in today's on line
 CS>> version of Business Week stating that they did away with their
 CS>> unlimited data plans.

 ml> did they retro-actively terminate everyone who was on that plan when
 ml> they terminated it or are those folk still on that plan and must keep it
 ml> paid up to date to remain on it?

People who were already signed onto the US$30 unlimited plan remain on it (if
they wish)... though if there intention was to cancel it when not used and
activate it when needed (travelling, etc), it's not clear whether they can
re-activate to the unlimited plan - I suspect not.

 ml> we recently found that our cell phone plan had been terminated 4 years
 ml> ago but we were still on it since we did keep the bill paid on time...
 ml> however, we could not get new phones and remain on that same plan even
 ml> with the same numbers... so we dropped that provider and went with
 ml> another... we still pay the same rate as before but we have more
 ml> features and capabilities, now... probably the first and most simple is
 ml> that our new phones have cameras in them ;)

 ml> yeah, our old phones were 10 years old :) they worked perfectly fine for
 ml> what a phone is used for... telephone calls... with a dozen machines at
 ml> home, why would we want internet on our phones?? :rolleyes: :lol: the
 ml> main reason we needed new phones was because the plastic/rubber stuff
 ml> used to make the buttons disintegrated due to the oils and sweat from
 ml> our hands...

A decade ago, mobile phones were analog devices; about that time, the providers
switched to several different digital networks - this saved them bandwidth per
phone (and allowed them to market additional services, like data). For a number
of years, they continued to offer both digital and analog networks - but they
wanted to phase out the analog networks as soon as the customer base allowed. I
suspect that's what you bumped into.

But why did you pay - for years - for service that you weren't using?

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