Apple releases Ipad 3

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 1:23 AM UTC

mburns wrote: post #191

jrockway wrote: post #182

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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. This is royally fucking their customers." You can't objectively define what constitutes "royally fuck[ing]" their customers. Just saying "this cost more than I think is reasonable as a wireless customer" means absolutely nothing in court.

Post by LokiSnake » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 1:38 AM UTC

gibybo wrote: post #241

rdl wrote: post #145

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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 unli…

Post by beedogs » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 1:55 AM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #254

beedogs wrote: post #247

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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?

Having collections hound you daily and damaging your credit rating for the next 7 years doesn't sound bad to you?

Post by lukeschlather » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

guyzero wrote: post #82

Aloisius wrote: post #10

It should be noted that the limited data plans for both AT&T and Verizon mean that at the max 4G speed of 73 Mbps, you could use all your bandwidth for the entire month in less than three and a half minutes (2 GB plan). The overages of $10/GB per month on both services mean once you go over your plan, you'll be looking at a little over $5/minute in new charges. It is possible (though highly unlikely) to rack up over…

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…

Post by batista » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 2:23 AM UTC

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.