AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone

Post by knite » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 6:34 AM UTC

gergles wrote: post #48

Moto7451 wrote: post #22

Id suggest 86-ing them and go to Straighttalk. They're an AT&T MVNO and for $55 you get unlimited service and data.

It's $45, but you only get 2GB of data. They advertise 'unlimited' but if you go even a byte over 2 GB they harass you with automated phone calls and then 'throttle' you (down to less than 1 Kb/s, so basically disable your data access, as everything times out). The California Department of Consumer Affairs doesn't seem to care about their abuse of the term 'unlimited', but we should here.

Post by gcb0 » Sat, Feb 09, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

X-Istence wrote: post #115

gcb0 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading that i think that the worst offender is the iphone that keeps phoning home. Not that at&t is not wrong as well. just that the iphone manges to screw the user even more. if apple hadn't bent over so badly to allow telcos to screw the customers with the whole tethering fiasco (which is still going on. unbelievable. all you sheeple giving out free money) they wouldn't even know you had a special needs phone.

If you turn off data on the iPhone it does no phoning home. If it did phone home when data is turned off explicitly then I'd have been completely and utterly screwed by AT&T for the month I spent in Europe.