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Post by gibybo »

rdl wrote: post #145
cwe wrote: post #95

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If you have more than 4 months left on your contract, it will be cheaper to cancel it now.

You can often get them to not charge the early termination fee either by either being really deserving-seeming, or being a belligerent asshole (but you have to be consistent). At least with t-mo and sprint, never tried with ATT or VZ.

If you have free roaming, one strategy might be to connect to another carrier's tower and make long/consistent calls on it, forcing your provider to pay them more than the $100/mo that you are paying your provider.

If you don't have free roaming, a similar strategy might work with unlimited minutes on their own network if you just use enough of them that their costs are too high to support you. If you don't have unlimited minutes, you can probably upgrade your plan, use a ton, then if they try to force you to switch or pay overages, you will likely also have the option to walk away from the contract without a fee.

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Post by tomflack »

josephcooney wrote: post #224
tomflack wrote: post #211

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He's not talking about resolutions provided (and my Vaio has a 1920x1080 15" display if you're looking for examples there) he's talking about support for different DPIs. Windows 7/8 "kinda" work in this regard - I have to use accessibility addons in firefox to make it play nice, IE just stretches everything, I have no experience with OSX.

Really? The 'different DPI' settings have been in since Vista, and worked pretty pervasively.

The main problem is third-party apps that don't respect the settings. It's not a huge problem. I've noticed some of the UI elements in windows get distorted sometimes too.

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Post by [deleted] »

josephcooney wrote: post #224
tomflack wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's not talking about resolutions provided (and my Vaio has a 1920x1080 15" display if you're looking for examples there) he's talking about support for different DPIs. Windows 7/8 "kinda" work in this regard - I have to use accessibility addons in firefox to make it play nice, IE just stretches everything, I have no experience with OSX.

Really? The 'different DPI' settings have been in since Vista, and worked pretty pervasively.

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Re: Apple releases Ipad 3

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Post by [deleted] »

josephcooney wrote: post #224
tomflack wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's not talking about resolutions provided (and my Vaio has a 1920x1080 15" display if you're looking for examples there) he's talking about support for different DPIs. Windows 7/8 "kinda" work in this regard - I have to use accessibility addons in firefox to make it play nice, IE just stretches everything, I have no experience with OSX.

Really? The 'different DPI' settings have been in since Vista, and worked pretty pervasively.

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Post by beedogs »

jrockway wrote: post #182
tedunangst wrote: post #76

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Suing the balls off of someone requires that you have "cause".

The government allows Verizon and AT&T to use the wireless spectrum with many caveats. One caveat is that they can't royally fuck their customers. This is royally fucking their customers. Hence, cause for a lawsuit is established.

> One caveat is that they can't royally fuck their customers.

Clearly you do not live in America. We abandoned the concept of consumer protection decades ago.

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Post by beedogs »

gbog wrote: post #231
ronnier wrote: post #35

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Right. These two companies have somewhat destroyed mobile innovation by being the largest providers of mobile internet and neutering their services to be almost useless outside of checking email and web browsing. Comcast is doing their bit with their monthly limits also. I say this with an "unlimited" AT&T plan where I've reached my monthly limit. Hitting my limit slows my connection down to a crawl (it's almost unus…

The largest In The USA. Maybe you are aware that other countries do actually exist?

Since when?

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Post by beedogs »

cwe wrote: post #95
samstave wrote: post #70

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This is exactly what happened to me after I bought a MyTouch 4G which allowed wifi hotspotting for my laptop. While I was not charged overage fees, my data rate was crippled to 57Kbps. The thing sits in the drawer and I NEVER use it because its useless. I am paying $100 a month for it. They want $400!!! to cancel it. Fuck these carriers.

If you have more than 4 months left on your contract, it will be cheaper to cancel it now.

can't you just change the credit card associated with the account, so they can't extract their monthly pound of flesh? what's the worst they can do, send it to a collections agency?

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Post by ricardobeat »

bunderbunder wrote: post #204
dagw wrote: post #185

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But once you go to 4G, that limitation just doesn't make sense any more. I know several people for whom 4G is the fastest internet connection available to them. Sure you could hack around it by setting up a wifi hotspot on a different 4G device, but still forcing them to use a slower network for larger downloads seems kind of dumb.

Heck, for me 3G is the fastest data available to me. However, 3G (and 4G) are much more expensive, in terms of the price it costs to transmit a given quantity of data. And compared to glass and copper, the total number of bits available within a given geographic area at any given moment is a fraction as large. Unfortunately, cellular companies failed to realize that offering "unlimited" data plans would set up poor e…

> the bandwidth that's being advertised is the bandwidth you'll get if you've got the tower to yourself

not exactly, that's if you've got the sector to yourself. AFAIK one tower has at least 3-12 sectors.

That's why LTE can't replace all of our data connections (for now).

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Post by beedogs »

ugh wrote: post #174
samstave wrote: post #171

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@UGH My problem isn't about "you know what you're getting, it's clearly communicated" My anger is because THERE IS NO FUCKING UNLIMITED PLAN AT ALL We are on HN, I have been on the internet DAILY for 15 years now. EVERY SINGLE DAY for many hours. As a travelling consultant, I rely heavily on mobile access to the internet. The fact that I had an unlimited account in the past - but now that speeds are getting acceptabl…

Maybe they can’t give you an unlimited plan? Data is seriously expensive for the carriers.

> Data is seriously expensive for the carriers.

That is a load of horseshit.

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Post by mirkules »

lepht wrote: post #156
guyzero wrote: post #82

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Let's not be silly. Existing LTE phones on Verizon get a real-world top performance in the 20Mbps range. Now, that's great and all, but no one will ever get even 50% of what's basically the signaling rate of 73Mbps. Also, your download patterns are unlikely to change a lot. It'll still be email, web surfing and some youtube. LTE makes netflix possible while not on wifi, but that's about the most data-hungry thing an…

Sooo... 25 minutes of watching Netflix then?

Netflix doesn't let you connect over a data connection, IIRC. Well, unless you're tethering, but then you're killing your tethering device's data usage...
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