Re: Apple/Android?
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:26 pm
Bruce is right on... As for the "don't I get charged for the data on my iphone". The question is yes and no... When I had unlimited data on my ATT Iphone I had it jailbroken to do the "Personal Hotspot" at no charge to me. (This is a whole other discussion) Now I have a Verizon Iphone which my company pays for, and they also pay for my hotspot.
SIDE NOTE RANT BEGIN HERE
1. ATT's data service is horrible, because they cheap out on their back end internet connections. You get a 3g connection to the tower and then I swear (jokingly) they have dial up modems providing your data. This allows them to keep costs low, because your data rarely ever works right, at all or fast.
2. Verizon's data much faster, and mostly they give you what you are paying for, however Verizon's network although superior in many ways will not let you hold a call and have data at the same time. (unless you are on wifi of course)
3. Carriers charging separately for text messages and internet hot spots really burns me. From a technical standpoint from someone who knows how all this works, they are charging you for the same thing three times. Once for the data for the phone, once for the data for the text messages and once for the personal hotspot data. How they can do this legally is beyond me, and it seriously torques me up. So now it gets better yet, ATT realized they should have never offered unlimited data because they could make more money, and decided to limit peoples speed that hit a certain data amount monthly.
So basically the cell carriers are scamming you times 10.....
SIDE NOTE RANT BEGIN HERE
1. ATT's data service is horrible, because they cheap out on their back end internet connections. You get a 3g connection to the tower and then I swear (jokingly) they have dial up modems providing your data. This allows them to keep costs low, because your data rarely ever works right, at all or fast.
2. Verizon's data much faster, and mostly they give you what you are paying for, however Verizon's network although superior in many ways will not let you hold a call and have data at the same time. (unless you are on wifi of course)
3. Carriers charging separately for text messages and internet hot spots really burns me. From a technical standpoint from someone who knows how all this works, they are charging you for the same thing three times. Once for the data for the phone, once for the data for the text messages and once for the personal hotspot data. How they can do this legally is beyond me, and it seriously torques me up. So now it gets better yet, ATT realized they should have never offered unlimited data because they could make more money, and decided to limit peoples speed that hit a certain data amount monthly.
So basically the cell carriers are scamming you times 10.....
