Ok, this guy, Dan Hesse (the CEO of Sprint), is good. He's done a wonderful job of giving Sprint a face to be identified with. If you asked people who the CEO's of Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile were, the majority of them wouldn't know. I would bet that you would find a more people who know who the CEO of Sprint is that the "no-names" of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Sprint is definitely a better carrier with him as the CEO; perhaps this is due to the fact that the CEO's of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are greedy powermad losers who care nothing about their respective companies' customers as evidence by their "unlimited with a catch data plans." I like the direction that Sprint appears to be heading in under his leadership; I was going to switch to Verizon, but with the "promise" by Verizon to change to tiered data plans, Hesse made me feel like I am in a oasis.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/sprints-dan-hesse-differentiates-between-unlimited-and-unlimit/
Tiered data plans are for either customers who don't use data other than for things like getting the weather/temperature, or customers who don't go over a small amount of data i.e. only using data for Facebook or Twitter. I don't think that it makes sense to have tiered data unless you expect your customers to only use data when they're connected to wifi. That defeats the purpose of buying a smartphone though. It makes me think that the carriers that move to unlimited data don't want people on their networks as if they're "saving" the bandwidth for someone else. What I don't like is how carriers try to promote tiered data as "giving the customers a choice;" you "choose" to pay more to use more data than x customer...you can't choose to not have data at all on a smartphone, but you can choose a bracket of how much data and what speed that you get that data at and get charged hundreds of dollars by our shady brand. Heck, I look at it as I "choose" not to fall for your evil schemes thus I choose to be with a carrier that has been generous to offer TRULY unlimited data... AT&T, who currently offers tiered plans with the exception of the people who were grandfathered in on an "unlimited" plan is facing a class action lawsuit for charging people for data that they never used. The speculation was that through AT&T's network failing to transmit packets effectively, data would get lost, and AT&T was charging the customers for the data that got lost. I'll be damned if I'm crapped out of hundreds of dollars over that. You're not gonna charge me because your network is $hitty and you're not giving me what I paid for.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/sprints-dan-hesse-differentiates-between-unlimited-and-unlimit/
Tiered data plans are for either customers who don't use data other than for things like getting the weather/temperature, or customers who don't go over a small amount of data i.e. only using data for Facebook or Twitter. I don't think that it makes sense to have tiered data unless you expect your customers to only use data when they're connected to wifi. That defeats the purpose of buying a smartphone though. It makes me think that the carriers that move to unlimited data don't want people on their networks as if they're "saving" the bandwidth for someone else. What I don't like is how carriers try to promote tiered data as "giving the customers a choice;" you "choose" to pay more to use more data than x customer...you can't choose to not have data at all on a smartphone, but you can choose a bracket of how much data and what speed that you get that data at and get charged hundreds of dollars by our shady brand. Heck, I look at it as I "choose" not to fall for your evil schemes thus I choose to be with a carrier that has been generous to offer TRULY unlimited data... AT&T, who currently offers tiered plans with the exception of the people who were grandfathered in on an "unlimited" plan is facing a class action lawsuit for charging people for data that they never used. The speculation was that through AT&T's network failing to transmit packets effectively, data would get lost, and AT&T was charging the customers for the data that got lost. I'll be damned if I'm crapped out of hundreds of dollars over that. You're not gonna charge me because your network is $hitty and you're not giving me what I paid for.
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