[t0dbld]

Attention AT&T users today I received the notorious text message from AT&T threatening me about tethering. While I am the first to argue the BS surrounding tethering and paying for the same internet twice I can say in all Honesty that I Have not Tethered my phone, after a heated argument with the AT&T representative, where I was told they would supply no proof, and if detected again after December 31, they would switch me off my Unlimited data plan automatically. I demanded to know when their expert system than detected this activity, I was informed that they detected it in both of the last 2 months !! I can say with 100% certainty that i have not tethered ever not even for a second during these last 2 months. I was than informed that if i wished to take legal action they welcomed it and were prepared for such blow back. It is clear that this is their strategy to get rid of all of us on the unlimited data plan that we will never loose if we don't leave or switch our plan otherwise. I realize that with #SOPA and the holidays we all have a lot on our plates already right now , but i believe if we do not mount an aggressive counter attack and strategy starting now we will all be stuck with tiered data plans by February 2012. Lets use this thread to come up with said strategy, leave thoughts and ideas down below.

 

[baddison]

Wow. That bites! I guess this is what we have to look forward to??? That's real nasty. :-(

 

[JWellington]

Oh my goodness that's terrible. It's too bad they are the only viable GSM company out there.

And here I was thinking of Leaving Verizon for AT&T. Yea right, not anymore after this.

I have actually read a few people who have had this happen to them. On Verizon I regularly use over 20GB a month on my phone, especially now that I have LTE. They never sent me a s
Single message.

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[AshG]

Have you considered contacting The Consumerist? If enough people experience issues like these and report them, it will get quite a bit of notice. Reddit is also pretty handy for stirring the pot - it just forced GoDaddy's hand at backing out of SOPA.

 

[Android_Addict]

On Verizon I regularly use over 20GB a month on my phone, especially now that I have LTE. They never sent me a Single message.

Same here. A light month for me is maybe about 10 and usually closer to 20. I'm so glad I got to move to vzw when I did to get locked in on unlimited with a LTE device I would go back to a generic prepaid flip phone before ever considering going back to AT&T

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[t0dbld]

thanks for feedback guys... it is indeed horrible , both reddit and consumerist are good suggestions, I willl not hesitate to use them to help bring this situation to light !! Keep the brain storming going !!

 

[ro6666lt]

moved to carrier discussion (at&t).