I use AT&T with several iPhones (kids!) and their speed has gotten
noticeably better over the past 2 years or so.

They have also rolled out a "mobileshare" plan where you pay for
shared volume, up to 12GB/mo I think...  I mention this because with
the new plan their strategy seems to be data-centric.  They've changed
from focusing on voice and penalizing data usage (e.g. per-phone plans
that only go to 2 or 3GB, throttling on "unlimited" plans, high
surcharge for tethering) to throwing in the voice & text and charging
based almost solely on data usage -- and encouraging data usage by
including "hotspot" tethering and using a clearer pay-for-usage-level
model.  To me that implies they're a lot more confident in their data
capacity than before.  Experience seems to be bearing that out so far.

AT&T's mobileshare plans are pretty pricey, though, especially if you
aren't spreading the cost over multiple phones.

Their coverage is very good in my experience but you pay a lot for it.
 We seem to keep our connections pretty well on our annual trip east
on I-94, FWIW.

-Harry

On Jan 22, 2013, at 4:17, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
>> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:31 AM
>>
>> I would still like to hear if people are having good luck
>> with the AT&T data service around the Twin Cities (which
>> should mean 4G service).
>
> I hear it works fine but has data volume limits of several kinds.  Some
> providers (both AT&T, T-Mobile, no contract plans ..  et al?) have weasel
> wording about "data service included" but hide that it's capped.  A friend
> has AT&T with an expensive unlimited voice plan, but gets extra charges for
> exceeding their basic quotas for data and texting.
>
>
>
> Chuck
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