Verizon, just another AT&T

gabriel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:43:56 +0000

So, the DROID is here, remember the device that was going to save the day against the evil iPhone and AT&T’s horrid service. Engadget has been posting articles all week, along with reviews, etc. In the process of reading these, I stumbled upon an interesting story about DROID tethering plans. Looks like you’re going to have to double your data cost to $60 a month for unlimited tethering, and by unlimited they really mean 10 gigs a month. When are phone companies going to get sued for false advertising. Unlimited means unlimited, not a number they think is too big for most customers. If I told you that you had unlimited access to my house, and then said as long as you don’t leave that 4×4 corner. You’d say I miss understand the word “unlimited,” wouldn’t you?

For all you people that think the iPhone moving to a different provider is going to solve any of your “data” issues or connection problems, you simply don’t understand how much data the iPhone uses per user. Several different sources have reported that iPhone users use about 50x the amount of bandwidth per day of a Blackberry or Windows Mobile user. Think about what that means. Any network that suddenly had a large influx of iPhones would suffer the same issues AT&T is having. Until the cellular infrastructure is rebuilt to handle data consumption at those levels, no network will be as stable or fast as users want.

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Verizon, just another AT&T