re ATT suggests heavy data users overloading cell sites, must stop or pay?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sid Karin <skarin () ucsd edu>
> Date: December 12, 2009 2:06:32 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] ATT suggests heavy data users overloading cell  
> sites, must stop  or pay?

> Dave,
>
> Somehow it seems that the headline should have read:
>
> "AT&T Admits To Inadequate Infrastructure To Support Their
> Contracted Customers."
>
>         Cheers,
>
>                 ......Sid
>
> I recently went around and around with a couple of AT&T folks
> after getting a message on my iPhone saying that I had exceeded
> the out of network data limits of my contract.  They admitted that
> I had no way of knowing when I was connected to a non-AT&T
> tower, while telling me that they had coast to coast coverage.
> Obviously not, as I pointed out to them.   I don't do any streaming
> video or anything like that, but during the time period in question
> my iPhone  spent time in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California,
> Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia,
> Washington D.C.,  New Jersey, Tennessee, and probably a few other
> states as well.  Apparently they don't have good coverage in all of
> those places.  What a surprise.
>
> Yes, I'm sure that they are correct about the fine print in the
> contract that no one reads.   I'm also certain that the contract
> does not reflect the unlimited data that they advertise.  I suspect
> that they would lose in court.  I am certain that they should.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>                 .......Sid
>
>
>
>
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
>
> >
>
> > From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
>
> > Date: December 11, 2009 10:42:46 PM EST
>
> > To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
>
> > Subject: ATT suggests heavy data users overloading cell sites, must  
> > stop or pay?
>
> >
>
> > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/att-says-it-hopes-to-start-charging-smartphone-customers-for-heavy-data-usage.html
>
> >
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> > Archives
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