[AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

Dean VP deanvp at att.net
Sun Aug 30 20:19:06 PDT 2015


Farmer,

I've contacted ATT and they don't have anything to compare with Verizon's 20GB MiFi plan.  Even with
the discount because we too are a Direct TV Customer. I was on AT&T's Chat support line this evening
and let me tell you it  was horrible. I didn't think anything could be worse than Verizon.


Dean VP
Snohomish, WA 98290

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent
virtue is the equal sharing of misery."  . Sir Winston Churchill

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Indiana Robinson
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 4:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

I am watching the AT&T / Direct TV purchase with some interest. We have
used Direct TV for a few years now. I sometimes describe it to people as
"140 channels, about 12 of which that do not totally suck"...
:-)
After a good number of years with Verizon's mobile wifi hotspot I just
dropped it this month. I have been very satisfied with the thing "EXCEPT"
it is and always has been only 5 Gigs a month before overage charges of $10
per each gig over. When we started the internet was much more text and
simple picture based. As the web flew off into a lot of fancy media and
video based stuff Verizon just stayed stuck in the past. We were running
over by about 3 or 4 gigs every month even though we were almost never
watching any kind of videos except on our smart-phones. I was very fond of
being able to drop the wifi unit in my pocket if we went on the road etc. I
hounded them for years about them being stuck in a couple of decades ago
but it did no good. One annoyance was that as far as they were concerned we
were just the same as a cell customer. Communications were "sloppy" due to
that attitude.
Here even though we sit up against the edge of town we could not get cable,
DSL or much of anything else except land-line slow speed connections.
This month I dropped Verizon wifi for the newly available (big new box next
road over) AT&T Uverse high speed internet which they no longer say DSL but
the installation guys make that reference. Our son to the north of us and
our daughter to the south of us both had some kind of dish receiver
broadband service fed from a transmitter mounted on a nearby very tall
grain leg about 2 miles east of here. I didn't go with it due to the cost.
They both became unhappy with it and our daughter was the first to switch
to the AT&T Uverse. After she had it a while we decided to try it. It's
been about a month and so far so good. Faster and reliable. I didn't really
need faster than Verizon for my use  but the big change was the jump from a
5 gig limit before overage charges to a 250 gig limit before overage
charges (for about the same cost). That and if we would somehow go over the
250 gigs the overage charge is the same $10 but it is for 50 gigs instead
of one gig. I have also read of a lot of people being quietly told that
unless they get silly about usage the policy is in the contract but so far
they are not bothering to enforce it.
Our son is now looking at it. A couple of weeks ago our 19 year old gamer
grandson ran a speed test at home then hauled his system here and hooked
into our with an ethernet cable and ran a speed test. Our connection was
almost exactly 10 times faster...
So far high speed internet is all we can get from AT&T Uverse, no TV etc.
BTW, for cell service we have used Straight-Talk for several years. We have
2 smart phones alike that cost us $45 a month each for umlimited talk, text
and internet (no contract). I have talked to an awful lot of people with
pretty expensive contracts that find a huge number of locations where they
just can't get service. I don't know about out west but east of the big
creek we get service about anywhere constantly.
We have phones with pretty big screens and now use those for internet
access when away from home. The only thing you have to watch on the
Straight-Talk phones is check the phone codes to be sure that it is a model
that uses Verizon's service. Many of the other wireless services (like
Sprint) really suck around here and some folks couldn't get a signal  even
if they were hanging on a tower...
:-)


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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