Re: Usage (was Re: [Fed-Talk] Your Help Needed
Re: Usage (was Re: [Fed-Talk] Your Help Needed
- Subject: Re: Usage (was Re: [Fed-Talk] Your Help Needed
- From: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:11:27 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Usage (was Re: [Fed-Talk] Your Help Needed
If you upgrade or want tethering you will lose the grandfather.
Good bye and good riddance to AT&T.
I'll respond to the others regarding comments on my other email but i
am moments from porting the phone over.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 4, 2010, at 8:08 AM, "Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL" <email@hidden
> wrote:
> If you log into your AT&T account online, there's a data usage area
> that
> will give you graphs of how they're counting your data for each
> billing
> period. I believe AT&T added it recently and it's quite useful. I'm
> actually going to be using my iPhone's data as much as possible for
> the
> next billing period to establish a "high water mark" to determine if I
> should stay on my grandfathered unlimited plan or go down to the
> 2GB. I'm
> also thinking that with my FAN discount, going down to the 2GB plan
> may
> not be worth it.
>
> I'm more interested in knowing what happens to my unlimited
> grandfathering
> if I upgrade to a new iPhone or go out of contract.
>
> Anyone know?
> --
> Jared F. Nichols
> Desktop Engineer, Client Services
> Information Services Department
> MIT Lincoln Laboratory
> 244 Wood Street
> Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
> 781.981.5436
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/4/10 9:57 AM, "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC"
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Is this the same Usage reading that is under Settings/General/
>> Usage? I'm
>> at 800 mb sent and 8 *GB* received. But I've never reset it, so I
>> don't
>> know how long that time period is from. But I think I'm in trouble.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
>> Date: Friday, June 4, 2010 9:22
>> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Your Help Needed
>> To: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
>> Cc: Erik van Bronkhorst <email@hidden>,
>> "email@hidden" <email@hidden>, "Blackmon
>> Jerry
>> (Contractor)" <email@hidden>
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 4, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am in line at Sprint right now. This will be the last email i
>>> send
>>>> from an iPhone. I love the iPhone but AT&T latest data stunt
>>> (and i
>>>> don't care that I am grandfathered in, it's a matter of
>>> principle) was
>>>> the final kick in the rear.
>>>
>>> When I reviewed my data usage (which you can do at
>>> wireless.att.com) I noticed on my iPhone I never went above 400 Mb
>>> in a given month. Which, I consider a lot for a phone. I am
>>> betting most people (read: my wife, etc) can get by on the 200 Mb
>>> plan.
>>> I might step down to the 2Gb one just in case I have a heavy flow
>>> month ;)
>>>
>>>> The htc evo has front camera, video chat (today) and sprints
>>> rates are
>>>> superior to AT&T.
>>>
>>> And a battery life of 3 hours.
>>>
>>>> It's unfortunate that apple has continued to back AT&T.
>>>
>>> They haven't. They are bound by contract.
>>>
>>>> Inferior
>>>> service and now this rate change. Marketing unlimited data to
>>> launch a
>>>> product and changing it 30 days later reminds me of the cheap
>>> dirty
>>>> used car salesman commercials talking about the $200 car and
>>> when you
>>>> go in it's switched.
>>>>
>>>> AT&T has taken their last dime from me (and 12 others in line
>>> with me).
>>>>
>>>> If the iPhone goes to another carrier I may go back, but the
>>> final
>>>> straw was the bait and switch and the additional 20 charge to
>>> just set
>>>> a tethering setting on the phone.
>>>
>>> If the iPhone went to Verizon i'd switch RIGHT NOW.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joel Esler
>>> 302-223-5974
>>>
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