OK I have the amaze with the 60 dollar unlimited 4g plan and I only used about 989 mbs of data I started from the 13 of this month to. Today I received a txt saying that I was abuse king the data service and was throttled now my speeds when down to below edge witch is like 0.12 mbs down 0.4 up I think it crap service has this happened to anyone on here with simple mobile before.
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Yup. My gf has simple mobile and when you hit around 1gb, they will throttle you or shut off your internet.
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Today I received a txt saying that I was abuse king the data service...
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"Abuse King" I certainly hope it said this. It would be epic... All hail the King of abuse!
$70 "T-Mobile Monthly 4G" pre-paid will give you unlimited talk, text, and 5gb of data before they throttle.
They also offer 100 minutes, unlimited text, and 5gb before throttling for $30 a month (which is what I use)
Sorry, I can't speak to Simple Mobile and their throttling, I just had to quote the abuse King.
I read through their ToS. It says
Protective Measures
To provide a good experience for the majority of our customers and minimize capacity issues and degradation in network performance we may take measures including temporarily reducing data throughput for a subset of customers who use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth. Additionally, in the event that a customer is in violation of the Permissible and Prohibited Data Uses listed above, we may reduce your data speed for the remainder of that billing cycle or terminate data service without notice or refund. We may also suspend, terminate, or restrict your data session, Plan, or service if you use your Data Plan in a manner that interferes with other customers' service, our ability to allocate network capacity among customers, or that otherwise may degrade service quality for other customers.
Update: Now this is just funny. I went to check if Simple Mobile is a BBB accredited Business, they are not. Look at what the BBB rated them though.
http://www.la.bbb.org/business-revi...ail/Simple-Mobile-in-East-Irvine-CA-100094297
Yup welcome to the scam that is Simple Mobile. Because all their customers are month to month, they give not two ****s about retention - in fact retention goes AGAINST their business model...they suck you in with false advertising and blatantly lying to consumers, lying about unlimited data, then turn you off COMPLETELY at about 1gb. And when you call to complain they LITERALLY CANT WAIT to drive your business away. Cuz they in know the next chump just bought his 60 card...they basically push you out once your usefulness is up end of month.
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Yup welcome to the scam that is Simple Mobile. Because all their customers are month to month, they give not two ****s about retention - in fact retention goes AGAINST their business model...they suck you in with false advertising and blatantly lying to consumers, lying about unlimited data, then turn you off COMPLETELY at about 1gb. And when you call to complain they LITERALLY CANT WAIT to drive your business away. Cuz they in know the next chump just bought his 60 card...they basically push you out once your usefulness is up end of month.
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Seriously man I have just cut my service I'm about to got to T-Mobile and get prepaid with them cuz someone stole my in foe and committed a fraudulent account in my name so I can't even go back to them as a postpaid contract. Omg I hate when I get jimpted
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I've never had a problem with simple mobile with any device I've owned, I'm currently using my Galaxy Nexus and I used 4 GB of data last month with no throttle
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Do it man, Simple Mobile is bad news, they suck and I sincerely hope they and their ****ty ways are out of business...soon.
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AttachedSilver said:
I've never had a problem with simple mobile with any device I've owned, I'm currently using my Galaxy Nexus and I used 4 GB of data last month with no throttle
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You Sir are the very big exception....
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You Sir are the very big exception....
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I've seen videos on YouTube that show data caps and throttling but I guess I'm lucky its never happened to me
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I've seen videos on YouTube that show data caps and throttling but I guess I'm lucky its never happened to me
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You are very lucky I called again today to talk to some from corperate and they were will to send a tickek. Whatever the hell that means but seriously tho like I hate the facted that I get throttled from not even using a 1gb of data
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Read the small print, if its one GB then its one GB every one knows unlimited is not unlimited anymore. At least you should if you know enough about phones to be here. I'm on contract and have 5 lines (not all mine of course, me, wife and kids) but my unlimited data is 5 GB & i expect if i hit that which i make sure i don't that i'll be throttled. So if your plan throttles at 1GB and you get throttled at 1GB what's the problem? You didn't read the small print? I just dont get it. I don't like it, i mean on 4g i get close to 20mbs & i can connect 8 devices they love to advertise that. So i could eat up my cap in a couple hrs. But thats how it is. Look how fast our phones are and oh yeah your capped but you can hit your cap faster with our network then any other lol. & buy a HTC one series phone will give you no sd card slot but 50GB of drop box storage. I laughed in the reps face when he told me that i said so with a 5GB cap in ten months i can fill up my drop box lol. Should have seen his face. I know, i know, wifi but still. I swear its a conspiracy, speed up the networks and phones lower caps and raise data prices, & now send us all to cloud storage wtf!!!! SORRY END RANT
Oh yeah & XDA premium but simple mobile? Spend your $ on a good plan.
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You are very lucky I called again today to talk to some from corperate and they were will to send a tickek. Whatever the hell that means but seriously tho like I hate the facted that I get throttled from not even using a 1gb of data
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Not that I'm trying to bash simple mobile... but as some one that helped launched the service... run away from simple mobile.
so shady.
but yea they will need to make a ticket to send to T-Mo for the T-Mo NOC team or one of the tech departments to undo the throttle so it's going to take a few days. .
Dude it still hasn't been fixed I'm thinking of just going prepaid T-Mobile at least I get my correct 3g speeds with them
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I didn't even notice the date of when this started... But simple mobile or any MNVO's Tickets are so low on the priority it takes for ever for a resolution. Going pre paid T-Mobile is the best idea.
True that's what I'm going to for right now
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I sincerely hope they and their ****ty ways are out of business...soon.
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Well somebody somewhere heard my plea...Simple Mobile purchased today by Tracphone. Good ****ing riddance, enjoy your new 711 overlords, you piece of dog**** mvno. Simple is dead..THANK GOD.
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Damn it well I have to wait till the next month to finish out my moneys worth and switch to T-Mobile next month
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after being throttle to .6 mb this cicle i have to say im not seing a difference in my usage
i currently am at 9gbs of usage this month and am able to still stream my nba games live at throttled speeds still.
i currently am doing my parctice were i use my phone a lot for video chat and photo taking for price checking and inventory.
I aint tryying to denfend att in no way in fact i did start a complaint here in puerto rico fcc equivalent when this whole five percent thing started to the point of having to talk to there customer service manager.
But is it really affecting you guys as much?
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I am at over 7GB, and have not been slowed down a bit. Not sure what the whole fuss is about!
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wish I could of kept my unlimited plan
It got all messed up last year
I tried to call and get it fixed but they didnt wanna help. Went up a few levels and still no unlimited plan =(
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wish I could of kept my unlimited plan
It got all messed up last year
I tried to call and get it fixed but they didnt wanna help. Went up a few levels and still no unlimited plan =(
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That sucks. That almost happened to me this time when I changed my phone to GNote from Atrix. ATT tried to pull a fast one by charging me the same price for 3gb of data. It wasn't a difficult process but they did have to make a claim. Nowadays even supervisors can't change the plan... Thankfully, i keep a good eye on my usage.
I wonder if you guys can get the unlimited data plan back with the iPhone 2G (aka Original iPhone) trick. Get an old iPhone, activate it on iTunes and it will get you the unlimited data plan since that was the only plan available for the iPhone 2G. Don't know if that loophole was closed but some people have claimed they tried it in December and it was still working as of then.
EDIT: Looks like that loophole has been closed and no longer works
Beats getting overcharged i guess buat am able to use my phone normally so maybe now att is using there heads
or you can go the verizon way and have an 10gb plan (20gb if ya bought it at christmas time)
now theres a plan i dont think anyone will cross
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The new policy did say 4G LTE users would not be slowed down as much as hspa +/3G users, of course they did not specify speeds.
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I am at over 7GB, and have not been slowed down a bit. Not sure what the whole fuss is about!
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What are you guys doing to hit 7GB , tethering lots of streaming? I think I need to get out if the house more and get off wifi lol.
So far I've only used 232 MB 7 days in lol. But that will change soon when I start to travel and such this summer. I plan on using my note to tether to my iPad and Transformer Prime.
they are only throttling iPhone users, not other unlimited plan users
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Im not tethering but i.dont have access to wifi also and i watch nba games all the time on my device and use google music as my main music player
gb of data will soon mean nothing with all the cool.stuff coming out for phones
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All unlimited users within the top 5% have been throttled since october '11
They published the policy online last month
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they are only throttling iPhone users, not other unlimited plan users
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All unlimited users within the top 5% have been throttled since october '11
They published the policy online last month
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Don't say that. Gez. Its only in certain areas. There are still plenty of people that haven't been throttled. You just don't hear from themes much
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What are you guys doing to hit 7GB , tethering lots of streaming? I think I need to get out if the house more and get off wifi lol.
So far I've only used 232 MB 7 days in lol. But that will change soon when I start to travel and such this summer. I plan on using my note to tether to my iPad and Transformer Prime.
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i used 2gb after 10 days into billing cycle
all i do is play games / browse website
i didnt even tether / stream / youtube once
When I get throttled I just get myself unthrottled. The ImEi trick always works
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Change APN, don't get throttled?
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Don't say that. Gez. Its only in certain areas. There are still plenty of people that haven't been throttled. You just don't hear from themes much
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They've been doing it for months and its everywhere not just in select areas but most people wouldn't ever use enough data to get throttled.
The only real change is that now they've set the throttle cap at 3gb for HSPA+ phones & 5gb for LTE phones. Up until last month they were basing the throttling on being in the 'top 5%' of other users in your area, which resulted in people on 'unlimited plans' getting throttled under 2gb.
Whoops I hitbthebthanks button. People are not getting throttled like they are supposed to. Its pretty easy to see. They are being selective
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Whoops I hitbthebthanks button. People are not getting throttled like they are supposed to. Its pretty easy to see. They are being selective
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Well thanks for the thanks anyway lol.. I was always suspicious of how they were throttling but now that they've set some actual numbers in stone I feel a little better about it. I'm a little irritated though that I pay for two identical unlimited data plans (for the past 5 years) and now one gives me 3GB while the other gives me 5GB.. even though I pay the same for both.. Oh well, its better than randomly being throttled at 2GB I guess.
At about 6.5gbs (which is pretty low for my average monthly usage) and have not been throttled even after reviving notification.
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Well...it is true that they are supposedly trying to only throttle in areas that are congested
That could explain the lack of throttling of some.
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So my girlfriend is going to be getting a note.
But we don't get lte in our area. We hardly get 4g.
Do we absolutely have to add a lte data plan on to our account or could we get like a 3g/4g data plan?
Basically don't want to pay for something we are never going to use.
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So my girlfriend is going to be getting a note.
But we don't get lte in our area. We hardly get 4g.
Do we absolutely have to add a lte data plan on to our account or could we get like a 3g/4g data plan?
Basically don't want to pay for something we are never going to use.
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You can call ATT to verify but I'm pretty sure you can use a normal data plan. Your account needs to be provisioned for LTE for it to work (and with the SIM iirc), but you should still be able to pull hspa+ with no issues.
I wasn't charged anything extra for having LTE provisioned on my account, but I'm also grandfathered unlimited.
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Yeah, it will depend greatly on the actual AT&T person who sets you up. Bottom line is that technically, you can use the Note without being provisioned for LTE. My girlfriend and I both had our Notes set up on our old data plan for a couple of months before a store realized the error while fishing in our account for other stuff.
Ok. I actually just called them.
The guy basically said that no matter what I get for data 3g/4g/LTE its all the same price.
It just depends on how much data she wants.
Can anyone confirm this?
She had a 2gb data plan from like 2 1/2 years ago. They don't offer that so they said regardless we are going to be charged more once we upgrade the contract.
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Yeah the 2gb plan is no longer available, it's now like 500mb for 20 3gb for 30 and i dint remember how much the 5gb plan was cause i went with the 3gb
The plans and prices are all the same regardless of what smartphone u have. Currently they are $20/300mb $30/3gb $50/5gb with tethering. if u already had a smartphone on an older smartphone data plan you are grandfathered in to that for the time being.
At&t sales rep here.
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The plans and prices are all the same regardless of what smartphone u have. Currently they are $20/300mb $30/3gb $50/5gb with tethering. if u already had a smartphone on an older smartphone data plan you are grandfathered in to that for the time being.
At&t sales rep here.
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OK sweet. Thanks.
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Just keep tabs on your usage with *3282# SEND. These phone are capable of allot of data even if you do not stream audio and video. 3GB is nothing with Play updates, a little web, FB, Twitter, FourSquare, email and Maps... Youtube can easily chew up a few hundred MB in a session.
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Just keep tabs on your usage with *3282# SEND. These phone are capable of allot of data even if you do not stream audio and video. 3GB is nothing with Play updates, a little web, FB, Twitter, FourSquare, email and Maps... Youtube can easily chew up a few hundred MB in a session.
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I have sprint so I don't worry about it. But I always check for my gf. She is always so close to going over. Lol.
Then I'm like " No more internet". Haha.
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The plans and prices are all the same regardless of what smartphone u have. Currently they are $20/300mb $30/3gb $50/5gb with tethering. if u already had a smartphone on an older smartphone data plan you are grandfathered in to that for the time being.
At&t sales rep here.
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Why do you say for the time being? Are they trying to do away with the grandfathered unlimited? Honestly...that's the only reason I stuck with ATT
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No i haven't heard that they will, but they can at any time. The way things are going its bound to happen at some point.
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Sadly today I got rid of my beloved Note. before my trial period expired I made the decision to cut ties with it. not because it was a bad phone but because of 2 issues. 1) the high price of AT&T phone service and the lack of unlimited data plan. I came from sprint 13 days ago and could not stand looking at my data usage and my first bill scare me. so I returned back to Sprint with my new S3. Love the service on AT&T. I think is the best so far. but not at a cost AT&T want it. so,,, good bye Note!!! :crying::crying:. one more thing,,,,, THANK YOU ALL AT THE NOTE FORUM FOR YOUR SUPPORT AT ROOTING,UNROOTING AND ROM FLASHING YOU ARE THE BEST AT THIS COMMUNITY XDA-DEVELOPERS ROCK!!!!!!
understandable...hate to see you leave but it is pricey. I, too, pay about 45 dollars more a month for att but I couldnt stand sprints service in my area. the trade off for me is worth it for now. plus, i love my note. it IS the main reason I came to att. be cool man. youll be missed...
Me too men. The Note was the reason I switch to AT&T. But I'll be watching for the Note2!!!!
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Thank god I have grandfather unlimited plan. Even though they cap the speed, at least I don't have to worry about overage. Sprint Sucks where I live.
I am sure you will be happy with S3.
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So far AT&T is the best network. I tryed Cingular,Sprint,AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Here the best in order in my opinion are AT&T and Sprint. I tried Verizon but lost Data connection at home!!! So after 2 days I canceled my contact.
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mutantblack said:
Thank god I have grandfather unlimited plan. Even though they cap the speed, at least I don't have to worry about overage. Sprint Sucks where I live.
I am sure you will be happy with S3.
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+1. They'll have to pry my unlimited data from my cold dead hands before I leave and switch to another carrier.
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I love in NYC and I must say T-Mobile is the way to go here. Good prices and signal and one seriously doesn't need more than 2gb because one can find free wifi anywhere here.
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I love in NYC and I must say T-Mobile is the way to go here. Good prices and signal and one seriously doesn't need more than 2gb because one can find free wifi anywhere here.
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I was told in NYC they are turning all the old payphones into wifi hotspots. I was wondering if there is any truth to that or if that already happened? If that is the case you would never need to have a data plan.
Certainly understand. I spent years w/Sprint (not always enjoyable) BUT switched to AT&T when I got the iPhone3g when it came out.
I'd love to try Sprint again...maybe they will get a Note.
HAVE FUN with the S3 (even though it is tiny).
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I was told in NYC they are turning all the old payphones into wifi hotspots. I was wondering if there is any truth to that or if that already happened? If that is the case you would never need to have a data plan.
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I never heard of such thing but that would be awesome. Now if they intend to that I'm sure there would be some type of paying plan that would be needed from whatever company that plans to carry this out
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Should had kept the note and get the t mobile plan I pay 70 bucks unlimited everything well 5gbs of 4g
Yes if I didn't have my old cheap unlimited data plan I don't know what I would do as long as I have it, it would be hard to switch
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I pay $80 Unlimited everything on AT$T
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I pay $67.76 every month for my Note.
3 gb of data I only use half of
450 minutes I only use about 300 of
no texting plan since I use Google voice and text messages use data that way
And I get 20% off my minutes with a discount through my employer (Red Lobster).
Not a bad deal.
Straight Talk's $45 Unlimited Plan works well for us and it uses AT&T towers here. I use it on my Note. We use them for hot spots and haven't had any problems there either.
nice note 2
39 for my bill but I'm sure the sprint sgs3 group will be great ' not as good as us though
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Damn!!!!, and now you tell me!!!!
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sholsten said:
Straight Talk's $45 Unlimited Plan works well for us and it uses AT&T towers here. I use it on my Note. We use them for hot spots and haven't had any problems there either.
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Damn!!!!, and now you tell me!!!!
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Sounds like OP issues isn't anything with the note as much as ATT which I can understand. I like it for my family as I have been with the big 3 and they each have their hidden features to get your money. Good luck!
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Japan’s Softbank Angling to Buy Sprint — and Maybe Clearwire, Too
http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2012/10/11/us-consumers-need-softbank-to-buy-sprint/
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-...buy-sprint-maybe-clearwire-too-134508242.html
this is good news.
I figure it will either infuse some capital into Sprint, or they might make contract changes allowing me to get out ETF free.
Root and roam control. They will ask you to leave!
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Root and roam control. They will ask you to leave!
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Only if you use a bunch of data right?
That is correct. Over 300MB a few months in a row may trigger it.
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That is correct. Over 300MB a few months in a row may trigger it.
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K. I'm not ready for a new carrier just yet.. I use roam control strictly for voice since here at my house I get really crappy service. Roaming allows me to make calls even in my basement. (as opposed to having to have my phone next to a window to get service)
If you are stateside you may qualify for a free airave. Must call Sprint and complain about poor service. Oh and have decent broadband connection.
atroph said:
If you are stateside you may qualify for a free airave. Must call Sprint and complain about poor service. Oh and have decent broadband connection.
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I've been on sprint since 1997. So i'll call and see if that's an option. They better offer me that seeing as I've had at least 3 lines with them for over 7 years now.
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K. I'm not ready for a new carrier just yet.. I use roam control strictly for voice since here at my house I get really crappy service. Roaming allows me to make calls even in my basement. (as opposed to having to have my phone next to a window to get service)
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I went to the sprint store following a month using roam control. Played nice saying I get extremely bad service at my house (in all honesty I do). I walked out of the store with an airwave unit. Now I get 5 bars in the house. Download is 2.5MB upload 1.0MB.
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Real wheeler Dealers trying to use other peoples money on the deal.
Softbank Wants A $23 Billion Loan To Buy 70% Of Sprint
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/10/12/softbank-wants-a-23-billion-loan-to-buy-70-of-sprint/
They did it......
Clear too.
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http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/15/3505180/softbank-sprint-acquisition-confirmed-announcement
The transaction is expected to close in mid-2013, subject to a meeting of Sprint shareholders, and the usual FCC and antitrust approval, as well as SoftBank's ability to secure financing. In the event that it can't raise the necessary cash or if Sprint gets a better offer, the Japanese carrier will have to cough up $600 million in termination fees. Likewise, Sprint will have to pay $75 million if its shareholders don't approve the transaction.
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What does this mean for us!!!!!! Is our unlimited data in jeopardy!?! Will we still get the note 2, and will our bills go up!?! these three things are the only things I'm worried about
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Here's a good article on CNET about the acquisition
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57532453-94/what-softbanks-takeover-of-sprint-means-for-you-faq/
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A2CKilla said:
What does this mean for us!!!!!! Is our unlimited data in jeopardy!?! Will we still get the note 2, and will our bills go up!?! these three things are the only things I'm worried about
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More money more LTE faster.
Sprints maybe number 3 can't see them raising prices or cutting data.
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More money more LTE faster.
Sprints maybe number 3 can't see them raising prices or cutting data.
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Money management at Sprint sucks
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Thank you for sharing this new dude!
LexLuger82 said:
Money management at Sprint sucks
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Is it money management ? or choosing the wrong technology WiMax instead of LTE.
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Is it money management ? or choosing the wrong technology WiMax instead of LTE.
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Wimax came out 2 years before other carriers got lte. Sprint had true 4g before anyone else.
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Wimax came out 2 years before other carriers got lte. Sprint had true 4g before anyone else.
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At lest they tried !?
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Any updated tricks to get around the dreaded AT&T throttling for unlimited users besides not using so much data? None of the APN settings I try work.
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I personally haven't seen any successful workaround for the throttling posted here on XDA.
Bsmith0731 said:
Any updated tricks to get around the dreaded AT&T throttling for unlimited users besides not using so much data? None of the APN settings I try work.
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I've been trying to figure this out since I had my Galaxy S3 with no luck. I don't think its really do-able. I'm about to break down and switch to one of the 10GB shared family plans as I'm the only one on my account that uses any data.
redpoint73 said:
I personally haven't seen any successful workaround for the throttling posted here on XDA.
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The old swapping of the APN used to work for me..
zacharyt86 said:
I've been trying to figure this out since I had my Galaxy S3 with no luck. I don't think its really do-able. I'm about to break down and switch to one of the 10GB shared family plans as I'm the only one on my account that uses any data.
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It's Almost pointless to keep unlimited. That throttle speed is horrible.
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Bsmith0731 said:
The old swapping of the APN used to work for me..
It's Almost pointless to keep unlimited. That throttle speed is horrible.
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Yeah it is. They have effectively made the unlimited plan useless, which is what I think they set out to do, when I'm being capped its something like 50kb/s, and that is just unusable.
zacharyt86 said:
Yeah it is. They have effectively made the unlimited plan useless, which is what I think they set out to do, when I'm being capped its something like 50kb/s, and that is just unusable.
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I usually end my month right around 5 to 6 gb. But as soon as it happens you recognize it immediately!
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Isn't there something in the contract that prevents them from doing that. If you're paying for unlimited 4G when you're on a 4G signal it should be unlimited at 4G speeds. That's just bull! Glad I'm not on AT&T.
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w4itg said:
Isn't there something in the contract that prevents them from doing that. If you're paying for unlimited 4G when you're on a 4G signal it should be unlimited at 4G speeds. That's just bull! Glad I'm not on AT&T.
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Isn't that the truth
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w4itg said:
Isn't there something in the contract that prevents them from doing that. If you're paying for unlimited 4G when you're on a 4G signal it should be unlimited at 4G speeds. That's just bull! Glad I'm not on AT&T.
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The contract terms state quite the opposite, actually:
AT&T may reduce your data throughput speeds at any time or place if your data usage exceeds an applicable, identified usage threshold during any billing cycle. AT&T will provide you with advance notice of the usage threshold applicable to your data plan, or any changes to the applicable usage threshold either by a bill insert, email, text message or other appropriate means
And folks on AT&T aren't "paying" for 4G specifically. For folks where 4G is not even available, they pay the same price for their data plan.
Is this correct ideologically, or even from a logical/common sense standpoint? Its easily arguable that AT&T is in the wrong; and I would agree with you there. AT&T's policy can easily be seen as anti-consumer, and solely in AT&T's own interest.
But are they technically or legally in the right, its pretty debatable either way. AT&T can argue various points, such as the fact that the technology has changed, and the terms can therefore change also. The fact of the matter (in my understanding) is that AT&T, and all the carriers are having trouble keeping up with market demand for bandwidth. Smartphones are getting more and more data hungry, along with the way folks use these devices. The longer terms outlook for the networks to keep up with data demand is not good, to say the least. The carriers are going to be dumping a lot of money to upgrade their networks over the coming years/decades. And that money needs to come form somewhere. Its in the carriers interest to force customers onto tiered plans.
Unfortunately, ;egal action regarding throttling has only met with limited success, from what I can find on Google. One person won a small claims lawsuit and was awarded $850. Probably not an effort that most of us would be interested in pursuing. Class action has only been specific to the iPad 3G (from what I can fine), and won each owner a whopping $40. And class action lawsuit is actually prohibited by the . . . . (wait for it) . . . . present AT&T contract terms (and upheld by the Supreme Court)!