About two months ago I got a call from them about my data usage downloading books from audible.com. There is a smartphone feature called audible air. I download my books and podcasts via audible and they end up on my sd card. They started to talk about policy and this and that, I said well I signed up for unlimited data. So if you want to cancel my contract you can do that. But I'll post the conversation and outcome on digg.com, you see I told the lady, image is everything, and with the new Iphone if you start telling everyone that the unlimited is not really unlimited people will think twice about AT&T and they won't pick AT&T as a carrier.
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Originally Posted by mexiken  Well, I might agree with Jason in regards to the proxy, however, its quite obvious as to the session data sizes when you're using your phone and a PC. They're printed, in detail, on your bill.
The average mobile page might be around 4-40 KB. PC sites start around 100 and go up from there .
For example, I just launched yahoo.com from both my PC and phone.
Phone = 4.05 KB
PC = ~119 KB
Now just imagine, EVERY page you click, the disparity between the two sizes doubles. So say you click 2 pages, the difference in size is not 115 KB, but somewhere around 230. And it keeps going that way.
Anyone who thinks that they can somehow "hide" their internet usage (as far as data transferred) is just fooling themselves. There really isn't any way to get close to PC usage sizes on a phone. Too many websites have mobile versions of pages now. Just not gonna happen. So therefore, AT&T could very easily do a quick study, find out what the HEAVIEST legitimate users of PDA internet use, and write a quick billing app that flags accounts that are higher than that. Verizon already has a cap in place, its stated so in its contract and promo material mentioning internet access. And AT&T already has marketing programs that flag people who use services for which they have no plan for. So, there is no hiding it from them in the end, however, it just depends how much you use for them to justify coming after you and so forth. |