 drewAutomaticPremium
join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
kudos:6 | reply to bobgwen
Re: stupid 1) They're all publicly owned companies. That is, they are all required by law to make money for their shareholders.
2) The networks were NEVER designed to handle the kind of traffic people are placing on them when they tether their BT running laptop to their phone.
I've "unofficially" tethered a few phones (Thanks PDANet and Rooted Android), and it's a nice feature.
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| Claiming the networks weren't designed to handle tethering a fake problem when carrier's like Verizon/AT&T already have tiered data with overages and T-mobile has pretty extreme throttling in place when you go over the amount of 4G data you purchased, if you want to claim a tethering fee on truly unlimited / unthrottled plans fine, but on teired plans your just double dipping the customer has already paid for that data, if they want us to pay by the GB, then it's our's and how we use it is none of their business. |
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| Tethering is NOT a service carriers provide, it is a function of the phone's system software and can ony be blocked if the software is gimped on demand of the carriers. Unrestricted tethreing can be restored by installing custom ROM's that restore the OEM .apk's.
Telcos in other countries "honor" the intent of the OEMs by leaving these .apk's in place and allowing tethering at no extra charge, specifically O2 (UK), Rogers (Canada), Telefonikka (Sweden). and others, in Latin America, Asia, etc.
This double-dipping by US carriers for tethering, along with charges for recieving calls and SMS (again, which other carriers n other countries do NOT charge for) is a repugnant and unethical example of American corporate malfeasance, legally permitted only by the grace of unregulated collusion and price-fixing in the so-called "Free" Market and the unchecked ascendancy of the Private Sector in this country. In short, this STINKS, and needs to be changed under federal regulation if necessary, and the sooner the better for the welfare of the bill-paying consumer. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | reply to drew
said by drew:1) They're all publicly owned companies. That is, they are all required by law to make money for their shareholders. TMo is owned by Deutsche Telekom, so they (TMo) is not a publicly owned company. Companies are also not required by law to make money. If they were, any company in financial trouble would automatically face lawsuits. They carry a fiduciary duty in managing money invested. That doesn't automatically mean that they must milk every last drop of profit out of any and all products and services that they provide. |
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 dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO | reply to drew
said by drew:1) They're all publicly owned companies. That is, they are all required by law to make money for their shareholders.
Please show me that law  |
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I couldn’t have put it better myself except I would have used expletives and called all the carriers snake oil and used car salesmen! |
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Thank you !!!!!!! |
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