Sick of ATT service? Operation Chokehold on Friday :)

[reallyscrued]

Sick of ATT service?

Get rid of ATT service.

It's called operation Common Sense. (People especially advanced in this area will be those who took a Business 100 class.)

Yeah, I understand some of you on this forum are (or at least claim to be) on a lockdown on which carrier to choose but I can guarantee you that 9 out of 10 people who bitch about ATT service has a choice, some choice, even if it's to not use a cell phone at all.

Operation Autoerotic asphyxiation is just going to fuck people badly.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I just now noticed something. I thought this was some actual concerted effort, at least a Facebook group or chain e-mail. No, this is just some made up bullshit on that crappy blog.

 

[Parasitic]

I must hand it to att. They know that crapples worshippers would pay anything to use the holy phone. Too bad you jerks screwed the rest of us now we cant even get a smart phone without paying extreme fees

Verizon was the first to assess a $350 ETF on "advanced" devices. Did AT&T follow suit?

 

[zerocool84]

Sick of ATT service?

Get rid of ATT service.

It's called operation Common Sense. (People especially advanced in this area will be those who took a Business 100 class.)

Yeah, I understand some of you on this forum are (or at least claim to be) on a lockdown on which carrier to choose but I can guarantee you that 9 out of 10 people who bitch about ATT service has a choice, some choice, even if it's to not use a cell phone at all.

Operation Autoerotic asphyxiation is just going to fuck people badly.

Of course but everyone on AT&T chose to be on it yet complain like little babies. Service is infinitely more important to me than how "cool" a phone is and it's not like the phone is that awesome anyways.

 

[Pliablemoose]

When did AT turn into assholes?

 

[KLin]

When did AT turn into assholes?

Sometime around October of 1999.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I just now noticed something. I thought this was some actual concerted effort, at least a Facebook group or chain e-mail. No, this is just some made up bullshit on that crappy blog.

http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Operation-Chokehold/224488903063?ref=mf

 

[Pliablemoose]

Sometime around October of 1999.

LOL, see if I invite you to my wedding...

 

[KLin]

LOL, see if I invite you to my wedding...

Oh shit I didn't even notice your join date!!! :lmao:

 

[QueBert]

I must hand it to att. They know that crapples worshippers would pay anything to use the holy phone. Too bad you jerks screwed the rest of us now we cant even get a smart phone without paying extreme fees

I had a smartphone years before the iPhone came out and I paid $30 a month for data and $10 for texting. I'm confused at what "extreme fees" you're refering to? If you're talking about ATT's old $20 data that was only for slow ass EDGE.

Fees have no increased due to the iPhone, they're the same cost they were before it was even a phone.

 

[Ika]

I must hand it to att. They know that crapples worshippers would pay anything to use the holy phone. Too bad you jerks screwed the rest of us now we cant even get a smart phone without paying extreme fees

What? Verizon does the same thing, and it doesn't have an iPhone. Heck, they even started doing this before they got some serious smartphones (minus Blackberries).

 

[Jodell88]

LOL, see if I invite you to my wedding...

Oh shit I didn't even notice your join date!!! :lmao:

Bw ahahahahahaa :biggrin:

 

[Pantlegz]

So everyone should dump ATT and their 3G phones become virtually worthless because of the way the carriers have manipulated the market? And instantly shovel $ into ATT's coffers with ETF's for breaking their contracts?

there's an easy way around ETF's tho. either make a M2M call and just leave it connected days at a time. or make a call to an 800 # that doesn't hang up on either a night or weekend and don't hang up. Do this for a day or 2 every week and within a month they'll offer to let you go, free of charge

 

[QueBert]

What? Verizon does the same thing, and it doesn't have an iPhone. Heck, they even started doing this before they got some serious smartphones (minus Blackberries).

But but but! it's still Apples fault! I mean they introduce the hand down most popular smartphone there is. And Verizon reacts by forcing you to get data on any smartphone. What better way to smash the competition than by not giving your customers options and probably losing a good number in the process.

 

[seemingly random]

... theflyingpig, is that you?

Just what I was thinking...

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I am not attacking him because he doesn't have personal experience with AT&T. He and his brother, both New Zealanders, post anti-American bashing comments in every American thread when clearly the only ideas they have about America come from the media, which do not present the real picture accurately.

God I'm so fucking sick of this. I didn't post a fucking thing about NZ or USA, you fucking idiots started with that shit. What I'm talking about it not giving money to companies that continue to screw you. This has nothing to do with USA/NZ - my parents are currently getting the shaft from Vodafone with their internet service and I'm trying to convince them to stop stuffing money into that company's bank account too. It's just frustrating to see people whine about a service but continue to use it.

You have no one to blame for your shitty service but yourself and your fellow consumers. Companies wouldn't offer a poor service if it wasn't making them filthy fucking rich.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What application would be best for this?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Sick of ATT service?

Get rid of ATT service.

It's called operation Common Sense. (People especially advanced in this area will be those who took a Business 100 class.)

When you post it, it's common sense. When I post it, idiotfucks around here interpret it as an anti-American rant. *boggle*

 

[Pliablemoose]

What application would be best for this?

Visit http://iphone.akamai.com/ and load the video at the top of the list (NASA TV). It's a live stream using the HTTP Live Streaming protocol, so it will auto-adjust based on your download speed. And since it's a stream, it'll keep running indefinitely.

 

[danzigrules]

all you damn youngsters that haven't a clue about at&t need to learn a bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_Divestiture


btw, I hate verizon cell service as it suck more ass than that at&t's

 

[TruePaige]

When you post it, it's common sense. When I post it, idiotfucks around here interpret it as an anti-American rant. *boggle*

Government authorized monopolies, just like the cable companies who split up territories and eliminate choices make it hard to just change.

Cell phones do not share uniform standards, I can't just buy a CDMA phone or a GSM phone and have it work on respective networks.

Contracts and subsidies on phone make certain phones only available from certain carriers, with exorbitant or unavailable pricing outside the carrier.

Lock codes hinder transfer of phones to different carriers.

Refusal to activiate foreign (aka different carrier, phones from other countries) EIN's.

Non-standard use of GSM prevents tri-band and quad-band functionality like it is supposed to work.

etc..etc..

You don't understand. It's like telling a North Korean to go to another country if they want to watch television. (That's a bit extreme but meh)

 

[evident]

What? Verizon does the same thing, and it doesn't have an iPhone. Heck, they even started doing this before they got some serious smartphones (minus Blackberries).

dont try and ruin my apple hate parade

I thought that the iphone was the first phone from att where they would force you to get the data plan. after they realized that people would go along with it, they would nerf other phones, physically disable wifi support and force data plans w/ their other phones as well

 

[LinuxIdiot]

I keep hearing people complain about their AT&T service, but I have had maybe 2 dropped calls in the last couple of years since first owning the first iphone and and now the iphone 3G and I have never had a problem accessing the data package. Maybe it is my location being in Dallas.

 

[Double Trouble]

Because, guess what - the #1 alternative, Verizon, does the same FUCKING THING. There's nothing you can do to get out of the price-gouging. To use a smartphone on Verizon's network, you have to pay a minimum of $70/month, plus $100+ for the phone after rebates. And that's the most basic plan - heaven forbid you want more than 450 minutes, a text plan, or multiple lines for your kids. You can't even get a smartphone without getting a mandatory $30/m data plan. Verizon also charges 20 cents per text message that isn't planned. 20 fucking cents, for a few lines of text? And they recently upped their early termination fee to $350, but it decreases for every month you pay - too bad you still have to pay $110 for terminating after 23 months of your 24-month contract.

I swear, the entire industry in this country fucking sucks. /rant

I don't disagree with you at all regarding the rip-off cell phone industry, but you seem to think that having a smart phone is somehow a necessity. A smart phone is nice, but if the alternatives for having one suck so bad in terms of service/price, then don't get a smart phone. Once your contract is up, cancel your service and get a regular cheap pre-paid phone. I opted out of the cell contract game many years ago, and I have no plans to get back into it.

 

[sourceninja]

Meh, I have no issues with att. I have issues with apple and their app store. Hopefully google will release that phone of theirs with support for ATT 3g.