When Steve Jobs first demonstrated the iPhone 3G at last year's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference he bragged about the speed of its internet connection. Since then AT&T seems determined to stop people from using very much of that supposedly plentiful bandwidth for anything more than loading web pages or reading email.
Now AT&T officials find themselves on the defensive after the release ... [ read the full article ]
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actually not to defend att about the data usage. but more to correct something wrong in the article.
Quote:Of course that prohibition doesn't seem to apply to AT&T's own Mobile TV service, which does work across their 3G network. Apparently your phone is only a personal computer until they're making more money from it being a phone.
Anyone can look up that the ATT tv that is on like...say the LG vue..among some other phones. is actually streamed off another carriers network, and not avail in all areas. It is actually more like REAL OTA tv signal than streaming media. The previous att tv people (mobiTV) did use data and internet, the new one, doesn't incur any data usage. Don't believe me, call att customer care. Just saying, cause I work for ATT and know the features.
On a neg note, all carriers limited aircards to 5gb per month, that is BS. pay 60 bucks and get limited data!!
edited by creaky as the quote was messing up the page margins