[ale] OT: AT&T data charge
Richard Faulkner
rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Tue Jun 7 21:19:23 EDT 2011
That I'm aware of all of the major carriers require a data plan with use
of a smart phone on their network.
Here's one better that I ran into. I wanted to add another line to our
family plan. We had already purchased a phone on Ebay and all I wanted
to do was add the phone on a shared minute plan with my other phone.
Sprint is happy to do this but only if you sign a two year agreement!
Even if the equipment is your own equipment! Early termination fees
apply!! Even to your own equipment. Needless to say we are in the
process of switching to a carrier that has no contracts and offers a
plan that better fits our needs.
11-years on Sprint for us and they are almost paranoid (for lack of a
better word) at loosing us as a customer that they have to lock us into
two-years servitude by signing a contract bonding our bank account to
theirs. Thanks but no thanks. So long Sprint.......Getting off the
soapbox.
RinL
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: AT&T data charge
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:02:06 -0400
Got them to refund last month, but it's true, you have to subscribe to
some form of data plan if you have a smart phone on the AT&T network
whether or not you use 3G.
Feeling extorted.
Thanks
ed
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 15:34, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
wrote:
I once had Awful T&T argue with my niece over some bogus
subscription
charges she was receiving passed on by AT&T. They didn't want
to come
off the charges although they said they weren't responsible.
Since I
was pretty sure they were getting a cut I asked to be
transferred to the
Security department saying that it was clearly "fraud" by this
third
party. It was amazing how quickly they took the charges off
the bill
when I started talking about that.
-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf
Of
scott
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:49 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: AT&T data charge
if you read your license agreement (EULA?) that you had to sign
when
you got the simcard/original phone there is verbiage in there.
It
blows. I think it is wrong. But any non-dumb phone has to have a
data
plan. I had to have an employee show me where it was. it was
burried
in the middle of a paragraph. Both AT&T and Verizon care about
what
phone you have and charges appropriately. T-Mobile doesnt care
but
doesnt allow you to use services you dont pay for (texting is
either
paid for OR you pay $0.10@ with t-mobile). I took my mom's sim
car
put it in my google smart phone and it works with no extra
charges
except she didnt have any data traffic. Only phone/SMS. Once I
switched my card back in it fully worked.
fight it but dont be surprised if they dont buckle.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Richard Bronosky
<Richard at bronosky.com>
wrote:
> They have to generate a signature or a voice recording of your
consent
> in order to add that charge. Fight them. Don't try to continue
using
> the device. But for the one month where you were uninformed of
their
> choice to charge extra for the same service based on the
device
> consuming it, don't give in.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Edward Holcroft
<eholcroft at mkainc.com>
wrote:
>> All
>> My daughter recently got a used iPhone and put her AT simcard
from
her
>> non-smartphone in - kids just gotta have an iPhone, ya know.
She only
>> accesses data using wifi and 3G is switched off. This month I
get my
phone
>> bill and they've added a $30 3G data plan even though she did
not use
any
>> ATT data. When I queried with AT&T they said I am not
permitted to
use a
>> smartphone without a data plan, even if I do not access ATT
data.
>> Does anyone know about this? Is this even legal? It just
seems
fraudulent.
>> Is this even worth contesting or do I choose to either pay up
or
switch back
>> to the old phone?
>> ed
>>
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