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pinchvalve
pinchvalve UltimaDork
10/31/12 1:19 p.m.
DeadSkunk wrote: I've still got my grandfathered ATT plan on my flip phone. It makes phone calls and does nothing else. I used 4 minutes last month. Look up "Luddite" in the dictionary and you'll find a picture of me.

I looked Luddite up in an online dictionary, but your photo was just a red X.

yamaha
yamaha Dork
10/31/12 1:23 p.m.
barrowcadbury wrote: Good to know! Sprint and Verizon were both on my short list of options... Looks like it's narrowed down to Verizon! My co-workers have been seeing speeds like what yamaha posted (on the Verizon network), but I wasn't sure about the throttling - looks like they aren't doing it, thank goodness.

Thats my total for this month.....proof i'd be boned without unlimited data. I plan on gunning for the 100gb/mo plateau when i buy a 4g phone outright.....free tether app that only uses data instead of tethered data.....I'll prolly run the xbox off it.

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
10/31/12 1:26 p.m.

5.3 down and 1.5 up on my HTC G2 through T-mobile's unlimited plan. Good enough for me. Better than the cheap DSL at my office but not even close to the DSL at the house.

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
10/31/12 1:30 p.m.

Ha! Just ran the office computer. 3.09 down and .31 up.

spitfirebill
spitfirebill UltraDork
10/31/12 1:47 p.m.

I have no idea what YOU PEOPLE are taking about. It's good to be a Luddite

HiTempguy
HiTempguy SuperDork
10/31/12 2:14 p.m.
spitfirebill wrote: I have no idea what YOU PEOPLE are taking about. It's good to be a Luddite

Gramps, get back into your bed at the nursing home! You're lost and confused again!

z31maniac
z31maniac PowerDork
10/31/12 2:16 p.m.

Yeah, we switched from SPrint. Our EVO 4G (yay Sprint STILL doesn't have 4G in Tulsa) got terrible speeds and no data coverage outside of BIG cities and what you did get was still SLOW.

Absolutely terrible.

donalson
donalson PowerDork
10/31/12 4:10 p.m.

wow thats crazy fast... ATT around here on my "4g" (hspa) aka what every other country calls 3.5g is suck... heck att sucks completely all together around here... and as such i NEVER come close to using all of my 2gig of data... come feb our plan is up and moving to verizon... I fear the 4gig shared with my wife won't be enough being that we'll have a decent connection doh...

integraguy
integraguy UltraDork
10/31/12 6:53 p.m.

AT&T:

I think if they could somehow charge customers for just touching their phones, they would do it. Their dept. for fine print on contracts must be THE largest of any phone company....heck, any type of company, imaginable.

Fit_Is_Slo (ceasarromero)
Fit_Is_Slo (ceasarromero) HalfDork
10/31/12 7:25 p.m.

LOL contracts!

DirtyBird222
DirtyBird222 SuperDork
10/31/12 7:47 p.m.

I pay for sprint unlimited, but I haven't upgraded my phone in years. Their solution to that, throttle the crap out of my speeds. A simple thing like texting a picture can take the better part of 10 minutes. Checking facebook is useless and their coverage in South Florida and the keys is miserable.

z31maniac
z31maniac PowerDork
10/31/12 8:50 p.m.
DirtyBird222 wrote: I pay for sprint unlimited, but I haven't upgraded my phone in years. Their solution to that, throttle the crap out of my speeds. A simple thing like texting a picture can take the better part of 10 minutes. Checking facebook is useless and their coverage in South Florida and the keys is miserable.

Yep, easy to offer unlimited when it's so slow and coverage is so terrible as to be unusable.

nicksta43
nicksta43 Dork
10/31/12 8:59 p.m.
spitfirebill wrote: I have no idea what YOU PEOPLE are taking about. It's good to be a Luddite

+1

Jay
Jay UltraDork
11/1/12 4:18 a.m.
scardeal wrote: Still holding out against a data plan...
mtn wrote: same
16vCorey wrote: Still holding out on getting a cell phone.
spitfirebill wrote: I have no idea what YOU PEOPLE are taking about. It's good to be a Luddite

This is how the over-40 crowd be hipsters.

92CelicaHalfTrac
92CelicaHalfTrac MegaDork
11/1/12 9:11 a.m.
DirtyBird222 wrote: I pay for sprint unlimited, but I haven't upgraded my phone in years. Their solution to that, throttle the crap out of my speeds. A simple thing like texting a picture can take the better part of 10 minutes. Checking facebook is useless and their coverage in South Florida and the keys is miserable.

They aren't throttling.... their network is literally THAT BAD.

GVX19
GVX19 Reader
11/1/12 11:20 a.m.

So you like your phone but not your phone bill? AT&T and T-Mobile. Come enjoy NET10 $50 a month Unlimited talk text and web! With No contract! iPhone and Android phones! Add Unlimited calling to Mexico for only $15 more!

For a limited time Free SIM with $50 Unlimited Plan. That is a $15 savings. Shop around you will not find a better deal. Then give me a call.

JohnRW1621
JohnRW1621 PowerDork
11/1/12 11:29 a.m.

In reply to GVX19:
As you may or may not know, Net10 is a brand of TracPhone. Another brand of TracPhone is Straight Talk. One of the differences is that Straight Talk is only sold at Walmart.
One of the things the evil empire that is Walmart demands of TracPhone is a better price, therefore...
Straight Talk offers the same basic deal as Net10 but offers it for $5 less or $45 per month.

z31maniac
z31maniac PowerDork
11/1/12 11:57 a.m.
GVX19 wrote: So you like your phone but not your phone bill? AT&T and T-Mobile. Come enjoy NET10 $50 a month Unlimited talk text and web! With No contract! iPhone and Android phones! Add Unlimited calling to Mexico for only $15 more! For a limited time Free SIM with $50 Unlimited Plan. That is a $15 savings. Shop around you will not find a better deal. Then give me a call.

Cool, do they have LTE faster than most of the nation's high speed internet covering major population centers?

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