* I previously had a 23% discount (FAN code) on my account which applied to the unlimited data lines in a favorable way. In essence, it applied to both the $30/month data fee for Unlimited, and the couple hundred minutes of call and unlimited text family plan which were sort of an umbrella for all the lines. With mobile shared, one of the gotchas I didn't discover until well after the first bill (since the perpetual excuse with a FAN code discount is – it takes a while to apply) was that the discount applies only to the mobile shared data bucket charge, not to the $30/phone, $x/tablet, $x/modem device access charge line items which quickly add up if you have more than a single line. This really threw off the math I had done for affordability and made it more expensive for me.

* The tiers previously were structured a bit differently, and with the two lines I had plus another person, I would always hit the 10 GB I had signed up for, then pay the $15/GB overage. Going to the next tier up to avoid paying overage for a GB or two would've still been more expensive, so like clockwork I would always end up paying some overages. Since then they've doubled some of the larger tiers as a reactionary measure.

Affordability wise quite honestly AT&T is close to parity with T-Mobile if you manage to get the mobile shared value plans which have cheaper monthly rates if you bring your own device or buy without a contract.

At that point I realized I was essentially paying for a 3 GB data plan (remember, no tethering provisioning was included or even could be added) under the auspices of an 'unlimited' tier. I switched to mobile shared but that turned out to be a huge mistake for other reasons (among which was that corporate discount codes didn't apply to the $30 phone fee on top of the bucket charge), and then shortly after that left for T-Mobile where I now have a real unlimited plan for less money. Not the full speed tiers + throttled data after that plan mind you, the actual unlimited plan.

What's really disappointing is that it took the FTC until now to build a case or whatever legal burden is required to go after AT&T for their elaborate bait-and-switch. This is years after the fact, and I wonder how much extra money AT&T made as a result.

People definitely need to be more aware of the x86 BSD based routing platforms like m0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ and its fork pfsense: https://www.pfsense.org/

I'm surprised the EFF isn't championing some fork of those platforms, or just those two themselves. Trying to fix the problem by adding yet another platform is just going to cause problems. I'm a huge fan of the EFF but it seems to be championing rather strange initiatives lately like the open WiFi and now this.

It seemed to show more data – both throughput from your actual cookied sessions and graphs of comparable connections around you. It took months for YouTube/Google to generate these reports when there was existing data out there already. I guess they wanted something that'd be easily digestible for a Netflix-style monthly shame-a-thon.

Moreover, before you sell your device or give it away, make sure you turn iMessage off.

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Chemistry-Physics-94th-Editio...

The sheer amount of information in that huge book is crazy.

Another alternative would be a wikipedia backup stored on an SD card and one of these or similar: http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/...

Keep in mind, T-Mobile USA is predominantly Band 4 for WCDMA and LTE, and Band 2 (1900 MHz) with at most a single WCDMA carrier in markets for roaming, iPhones, and improved in-building coverage.

So no, it isn't useless to T-Mobile, and won't be limited to 2G speeds. There's no Band 1 (2100 MHz) deployed inside the USA. Band 4 tried to align itself with Band 1, but manages only to align some of the downlink (tower->handset) spectrum (2110 to 2170 MHz for B1, 2110 to 2155 for B4), the uplink/duplex spacing is entirely different (this is the 1700 MHz "band"), 400 MHz below downlink for B4 as opposed to 190 MHz below it for B1.

I guess I find the fact that Google would be interested in making that kind of commitment very curious. Meebo has stated a number of times that a revamp of the Android client was imminent after I bugged them about why the Android client gets no attention or updates/bigfixes at all. Getting that to fruition would mean a workable cross platform messaging solution with some real scope.

The result was formation of these subsurface plumes that the author talks about.

For example, the Droid 4 was 14.6 seconds off, and Droid Bionic was 14.8 seconds off...

This seems to be a vendor specific issue, as none of the non-motorola phones (Galaxy Nexus GSM/UMTS, Galaxy Nexus CDMA/LTE on VZW, Nexus S, Galaxy Note, Tab 10.1LE, a Qualcomm development MDP) are anywhere near 15 seconds, all are +/- fractions of a second, like you'd expect.

This is a fallacy simply because the baseband is itself another SoC. Take the MDM6x00 family inside the iPhone 4 CDMA and iPhone 4S. Inside is an ARM1136 at up to 512 MHz, and two QDSP4000s at ~150 MHz for modem. It is an SoC itself, but for cellular, and thus moving from one process node to another will change power draw.

The fatter traces in some of the ASIC in the transceiver and the PAs after that front end is one thing, the power hungry baseband is another.

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