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Chemmy posted:Does that make sense financially? If you're eligible for an upgrade why not just take the One for $199 and sell the iPhone on Craigslist? Three reasons, one, I don't have 200 bucks right now; two, this way I can get a new phone next year if I want and three, my fiancee hates her 4 and wants the increased memory of the 4s but isn't up for an upgrade until next year. Yes, I know I'm paying more in the long run, but eh. Also, she's already said she'll pay the difference that I would have gotten for the 4s instead of the 4. Also, I hate iOS cause I hate having to have apps on the home screen, I like to be able to have a clean desktop. Yeah, I know, I'm weird. Edit: Keep thinking of new reasons.
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Stick100 posted:Also the US is a very big sparsely populated country so it's very expensive to have good tower coverage. You can get decent plans for $50 months but you have to pay for your phone. I work with some folks in the UK, and sometimes folks in Europe have a hard time realizing just how large the US is. Great Britain itself is a little smaller than the State of Oregon. If you put 60 Million people in Oregon things like public transportation and dense telecommunications become much easier to achieve at a lower price. Oregon has about 4 million people in it right now for comparison. I took a road trip this summer from where I live in San Antonio, TX to visit family in Kansas. My UK co-workers couldn't really contemplate somewhere taking 11 hours to reach by car. The equivalent drive in Europe is Paris, France to Madrid, Spain. I don't think much of it, I'm just crossing through a single state to get there.
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skipdogg posted:I work with some folks in the UK, and sometimes folks in Europe have a hard time realizing just how large the US is. Great Britain itself is a little smaller than the State of Oregon. If you put 60 Million people in Oregon things like public transportation and dense telecommunications become much easier to achieve at a lower price. Oregon has about 4 million people in it right now for comparison. City people tend to have the same problem. When I was working in NYC my co-workers were shocked that I was planning to drive back home to North Carolina. In one day!
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BobbyDrake posted:I'll be eligible for upgrade next week, and what I'd like to do is the following: You can do this, and whatever ATT rep you get will love you for getting Next. Shouldn't be too hard to do. Trade in on the 4 is $95-118 depending on size, the 4S is currently $175. Keep in mind Next means you pay $27 a month for the One, no activation fee, so it's $320ish a year. End of the 12 months, you trade in the phone for next newest phone (can't be broken), and that renews the payments of $xx a month. At any time you can pay off the phone or just not trade in and wait out the 20 month agreement.
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Apologies if this is not the best place to post this. I found out about the Sony Xperia Z and the Ultra. I want to use those phones. As far as I am aware AT&T does not sell them in store with plan so I would need to buy unlocked versions from elsewhere. I've been searching for articles that suspect they might be soon offered by AT&T but is there any sort of conclusive evidence? In the end I'll probably just buy one unlocked but if it's coming in the next 6 months or something I can wait because I'm due for an upgrade.
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Aug 26, 2013 19:36
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Gatts posted:Apologies if this is not the best place to post this. Unknown, and usually ATT releases a baa bastard version that really doesn't get support anyway.
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Aug 26, 2013 19:43
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I'm looking at coming to AT&T from Sprint, does the following plan make sense? 450 minutes, 3 GB data, no texting, 20% work discount: $56/mo + taxes My questions are: - Should I go to a COR store or order on Amazon.com? - Is there a way around the activation fee? - Can I get the refurb HTC One for $10 and sell it immediately to buy another unlocked phone? (Probably Nexus 5 or Moto X GPE) - If I put my SIM in said unlocked phone, will it get LTE?
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blargle posted:I'm looking at coming to AT&T from Sprint, does the following plan make sense? It'll be more like $62 with some taxes actually. Your discount will come off your minute plan, not your data. If your work discount waives your activation fee thats really the only way around it, you can try and call customer care for that kind of thing but if you're only bringing over one line its not likely, but it also depends on the store that you go to, just don't get your hopes up. You can buy the refurb phone and sell it for another device absolutely but there is no way for you to get that in a store, you'd have to order it through att.com and I don't even know if Amazon deals with them. And on the last one its really going to depend on the phone and the settings within, but I have set up unlocked phones and have had LTE working on them.
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Aug 28, 2013 14:09
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blargle posted:I'm looking at coming to AT&T from Sprint, does the following plan make sense? Iphones will have a better resell value than a HTC One. If the price is the same, go through a store, if you save money ordering online do that then. Who knows when a Nexus 5 is coming out.
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Sticky posted:It'll be more like $62 with some taxes actually. Your discount will come off your minute plan, not your data. They do discount the 5GB w/ tethering plan though. I have that. So my total monthly is around $75 w/ a 20% employer discount. I never really use more than 3GB, but I like having tethering that isn't dependent on a jailbreak. Worth thinking about anyway.
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Duckman2008 posted:Who knows when a Nexus 5 is coming out. Or even if. The price drop today of Nexus 4 to $199/$249 could signal they are clearing out stock or maybe they just feel the device is good enough and they just want to drive down the price to get a great device out there. With the N4 Google made a super top tier product at an extreme discount. It's possible they feel they have a good enough phone. I'm not really sure what google would care to upgrade. 720p is good enough for most people, the camera is ok, the processor is still in the top 5 of benchmarks.
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Stick100 posted:Or even if. The price drop today of Nexus 4 to $199/$249 could signal they are clearing out stock or maybe they just feel the device is good enough and they just want to drive down the price to get a great device out there. LTE is a pretty big deal. Other than that the N4 is still a great device. It was weird it didn't have LTE a year ago honestly.
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Thanks for the advice, I'll just use the HTC One or Galaxy S4 until the next Nexus or whatever unlocked phone comes along. I'm more concerned about getting LTE with the unlocked device, it seems like not many people have successfully pulled it off yet.
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Aug 28, 2013 22:00
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ddogflex posted:LTE is a pretty big deal. Other than that the N4 is still a great device. It was weird it didn't have LTE a year ago honestly. They made one global device to drive the price down. There is no standard for LTE and it only matters in the US. To make LTE devices you pretty much have to make a different specific one for every carrier. As we've seen with the N4 it could have had TMo and Rogers (Canada) LTE easily but it still would have lacked ATT LTE.
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Is it possible to buy a Nokia 520 and setup a GoPhone plan in an AT&T Corporate store? I have a tech-naive family member coming into town and for a few days and I'd like to help them get setup on a new phone and plan before they leave.
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Hughmoris posted:Is it possible to buy a Nokia 520 and setup a GoPhone plan in an AT&T Corporate store? I have a tech-naive family member coming into town and for a few days and I'd like to help them get setup on a new phone and plan before they leave. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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Hughmoris posted:Is it possible to buy a Nokia 520 and setup a GoPhone plan in an AT&T Corporate store? I have a tech-naive family member coming into town and for a few days and I'd like to help them get setup on a new phone and plan before they leave. Yep, $100 for the phone, and you pay for whatever plan you want.
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This is my data usage: I have unlimited. Should I drop it? Last month was an anomaly. One building I work at lost internet and I went a little crazy. I've used ~1.64GB this month with 13 days to go. And I don't have things set to only use wi-fi, which I could easily do and use even less data (I've used between 500MB and 1GB between Pocket Casts and the Google Play Store this month). The plan is 3GB for $20? Last time I looked on the website I couldn't see any plans to switch to. Also is there any way that it could be to my advantage, like could I get something for it? I don't even know what I'd get, but I'm assuming AT&T wants people off unlimited plans?
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myron cope posted:Also is there any way that it could be to my advantage, like could I get something for it? I don't even know what I'd get, but I'm assuming AT&T wants people off unlimited plans? They really haven't done much to incentivize getting people off unlimited plans. If you're on a family plan, you might be able to save a few bucks with a shared data plan (but maybe not), otherwise it's just a few bonuses like officially supported tethering and facetime over lte (if you're an iPhone customer).
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My dad wants to take me off the AT&T family plan and for me to go on my own. My dilemma is that I was going to use his upgrade for the new iPhone. Since my sister took my upgrade when she lost her phone last November. Seeing as I would like to stick with AT&T, and after doing some research I've come that these are my two options, correct me if I'm wrong please: 1. Use my dad's upgrade / get the phone and then do a transfer of billing or 2. Dad terminates my line and I sign a new contract with AT&T with a whole new phone number allowing me to get the new iphone with upgrade pricing. (does that work?)
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Peacebone posted:1. Use my dad's upgrade / get the phone and then do a transfer of billing Both are viable options.
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myron cope posted:This is my data usage: 3gb is $30. No advantage. Might as well keep it. In other news, our store has an install date for OPUS mobile. So pumped purely because that means we get CHAIRS! We're getting remodeled in October. Beefstorm fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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Peacebone posted:My dad wants to take me off the AT&T family plan and for me to go on my own. My dilemma is that I was going to use his upgrade for the new iPhone. Since my sister took my upgrade when she lost her phone last November. Seeing as I would like to stick with AT&T, and after doing some research I've come that these are my two options, correct me if I'm wrong please: Both are fine, bit with option two he pays whatever the ETF is. Beefstorm posted:In other news, our store has an install date for OPUS mobile. So pumped purely because that means we get CHAIRS! We're getting remodeled in October. My store tends to be a test store, so we have had OPUS Mobile since last October. Honestly, its just overall better in every way, and the table setup is very nice. The only downside is email is irritating to use on the iPads (you can't use the stock email app) so I use a desktop in the back. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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Beefstorm posted:3gb is $30. No advantage. Might as well keep it.
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myron cope posted:Wow, drat. I thought it was at least a little cheaper. Was it a recent change or has it always been $30? There's basically no incentive for me to either switch from unlimited or even try to use less data then. Except throttling? Do they still send a message when they start throttling or do they just do it without mentioning it anymore? Basically I'm wondering what the threshold is before they start slowing down my data speeds I usually only get a message when I hit the ~5gig mark (twice in the last year). I say ~ because AT&T has hosed up data usage monitoring which isn't accurate. I never noticed a slow down my highest usage was probably 5.5gigs.
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myron cope posted:Wow, drat. I thought it was at least a little cheaper. Was it a recent change or has it always been $30? There's basically no incentive for me to either switch from unlimited or even try to use less data then. Except throttling? Do they still send a message when they start throttling or do they just do it without mentioning it anymore? Basically I'm wondering what the threshold is before they start slowing down my data speeds I don't have personal experience (no unlimited for me) but according to the intranet, we send a message once ever warning you. Then you are just left to your own tracking methods, even if its a new billing cycle. EDIT: Here's the official documentation. quote:Will customers receive notification in advance that they are approaching the threshold? Beefstorm fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Beefstorm posted:I don't have personal experience (no unlimited for me) but according to the intranet, we send a message once ever warning you. Then you are just left to your own tracking methods, even if its a new billing cycle. The official customer facing verbiage if anyone cares: 
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There's a nationwide data outage. We know. However keep calling it in. The more information we have about the outage the better.
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Beefstorm posted:There's a nationwide data outage. We know. However keep calling it in. The more information we have about the outage the better. I actually got a Saturday off, and it looks like o picked the right one. That being said, I haven't noticed anything with data issues all day in Philadelphia.
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Duckman2008 posted:I actually got a Saturday off, and it looks like o picked the right one. That being said, I haven't noticed anything with data issues all day in Philadelphia. We had some problems late night/over night here so hopefully it didn't impact much. Last weekend we got hit by a huge storm and had no service at all in the town where I am which made for a fun/exciting sunday.
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Duckman2008 posted:I actually got a Saturday off, and it looks like o picked the right one. That being said, I haven't noticed anything with data issues all day in Philadelphia. Incase anyone was curious, it wasn't nationwide. A data node in Arlington WV failed and automatic failover didn't kick in.
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I currently have a IPhone 4s with unlimited Internet. If I upgrade to the Note 3 will I have to give up the unlimited Internet?
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frgildan posted:I currently have a IPhone 4s with unlimited Internet. If I upgrade to the Note 3 will I have to give up the unlimited Internet? No
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I'm just going to make this more obvious in the op.
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My Dad is on ATT with unlimited data, if I get him the new LTE enabled Nexus 7 would he be able to plug in his SIM from his iphone into the tablet and get LTE?
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THF13 posted:My Dad is on ATT with unlimited data, if I get him the new LTE enabled Nexus 7 would he be able to plug in his SIM from his iphone into the tablet and get LTE? You probably don't want to do this. The iPhone SIM is provisioned for a smartphone data plan, and putting it into a device that AT&T's network knows is not a smartphone will cause problems.
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THF13 posted:My Dad is on ATT with unlimited data, if I get him the new LTE enabled Nexus 7 would he be able to plug in his SIM from his iphone into the tablet and get LTE? Beyond not being able to make phone calls, you would risk having ATT's system switch the plan to a tablet plan and thus losing unlimited. It could work, but its def do at your own risk.
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Currently grandfathered into a 550 minute family plan with unlimited data + texts for $145 ish a month for two lines. Line 1: Nexus 4 with 9 months left on the two year contract. Line 2: iPhone 4S - contract free. I am thinking of either dropping Line 2 from my family plan and just sticking with Line 1. How would I go about this and how much should I expect to pay for what I am receiving right now? Should I theoretically cancel both lines, pay the early termination fee, and switch to T-Mobile?
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Busy Bee posted:Currently grandfathered into a 550 minute family plan with unlimited data + texts for $145 ish a month for two lines. $90 before tax for 450min, unlimited text, and your unlimited data plan.
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Do many people still open up extra lines for upgrades? I know financially it makes no sense but my wife's phone is destroyed and paying 650 for a new iPhone would be tough right now. We are a year out from being upgrade eligible. This would only be $10 more a month right? Plus the cost of the upgrade.
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