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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list