{"id":73935,"date":"2009-12-09T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/1642147276.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-09T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T03:22:00","slug":"atts-bait-and-switch-on-iphone-unlimited-service-we-screwed-up-so-now-you-have-to-pay-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/73935","title":{"rendered":"AT&T’s Bait And Switch On iPhone Unlimited Service: We Screwed Up, So Now You Have To Pay More"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s lots of buzz going around concerning the news that an AT&T exec has admitted that to deal with the companies own inability to build out a strong cellular network (angering tons of iPhone users), that it’s planning to put in place caps and charge more to high-end users<\/a>. Of course, this is pure bait and switch. The company sold people on an unlimited data plan, failed to invest in its network, and pushed high bandwidth apps on people<\/a>. And, of course, it’s worth noting that while they now want to charge high bandwidth users more, they don’t say anything about the low bandwidth users. No one gets a discount. AT&T is making a ton of money off of the iPhone. It could have — and should have — invested more of that into network upgrades. Now it’s blaming its most loyal users — the same ones who it recommended high bandwidth apps to — and expecting that everyone will be happy with that? AT&T may discover that people start looking for other alternatives<\/a> if they dump the unlimited data offering that they sold people.<\/p>\n

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There’s lots of buzz going around concerning the news that an AT&T exec has admitted that to deal with the companies own inability to build out a strong cellular network (angering tons of iPhone users), that it’s planning to put in place caps and charge more to high-end users. Of course, this is pure bait […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}