The battle of the Droids??!

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Originally Posted by tomato

Meh.... I happen to think it's fair. People who consume huge amounts of data (watching Netflix on their phones, etc., etc.,) shouldn't be expected to pay the same as the occasional user. And we do want carriers to keep up with network upgrades so they don't have the problem AT&T has had for years in SF and NY with people practically bringing the network to a crawl with their iPhones on unlimited data plans.

Don't get me wrong, I like free stuff as much as the next guy but it's simply not realistic. Everybody is doing it and Sprint too will have to follow suit. If they don't do it, then they won't be able to keep up with the network expansion and user experience will suffer. Either way, you're paying for it.

In the end, the best network /carrier is the one that works. Out here VZW is rock solid. Sprint has "issues". AT&T is a disaster. T-Mo is spotty. But they're all kind of OK outside of SF. Figures .

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I'm sorry but the USA has the highest cell phone rates on the planet. Data is not limited, it is totally and 100% unlimited. Bandwidth is basically 100% unlimited. Just because AT@T let their network rot does not mean they had to. They chose to.

You can pick up a real phone in Europe, or better yet, Japan or China, that you can watch local broadcast tv and listen to radio on, get unlimited talk, text, data, and quite a few other things people here in the USA wouldn't dream about their phones doing, and they pay less than half of what we do.

My sister in London has the latest Iphone, unlimited everything and she only pays £40 a month. That is around $60 a month by today's rates. Try getting any phone company in the US to give you that deal and see what happens.

The USA gets totally screwed on internet and phone charges. We pay massively more than anyone else on the entire planet.

Please, don't pretend we are doing anyone a favor by allowing phone companies to bend us over a table at every single turn.