{"id":381930,"date":"2010-03-02T21:15:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=58815"},"modified":"2010-03-02T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:15:34","slug":"helping-to-ease-att%e2%80%99s-network-pains-%e2%80%94-goodbye-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381930","title":{"rendered":"Helping to Ease AT&T\u2019s Network Pains \u2014 Goodbye iPhone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week I detailed how I’m retooling my mobile toolkit<\/a> and today I took another step towards simplicity. I just got in from a trip to the local AT&T and T-Mobile stores and I’m essentially down another phone. That’s good for AT&T since their CEO, Randall Stephenson, today said that the carrier handles half of data traffic generated in the U.S<\/a>. No need to thank me, Randall — just doing my part to ease the network congestion. Technically, AT&T didn’t even lose the account, but I’ll explain that in a few. For now, suffice it to say that I’m only going to carry one phone again. Last month, the Palm Pre\u00a0went away<\/a> and today for the first time since July of 2007, I have no iPhone.<\/p>\n

What I did was actually a little convoluted though and here’s where AT&T still comes out ahead. I found a location that had both an AT&T store and a T-Mobile shop within walking distance because I had a unique situation. I wanted to port my AT&T number over to my Google Nexus One, but I didn’t want to close my AT&T account. That’s a problem because porting a number from one carrier to another generally shuts down an account. I couldn’t do that because my wife also<\/em> has an iPhone with AT&T on the same family plan. So I really wanted to port my number from AT&T but then have them assign a new<\/em> number to my iPhone. This would allow me to avoid the ETF on my line so that one of our kids — who is now ready for a phone — could use my iPhone 3GS for the remainder of the contract. Like I said — a little convoluted.<\/p>\n