Anyone here can tell you that I am not a big fan of AT&T business practices. However, in fairness, AT&T has to pay the "roaming" carrier to provide service to their, AT&T's, customer, namely you. Some carriers are better at negotiating roaming agreements than others.Utterly ridiculous roaming fees. Like it actually costs more money to use data if you are in another country compared to someone sitting next to you using the same cell phone on the same frequency using the same modulation downloading the same data, just because your billing address is outside the country.
Yeah, I'm talking to you, ATT Wireless, you cheats, you ****tards, you deceiving bastards. Does it really cost THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS to download 190 MEGABYTES of data?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Anyone here can tell you that I am not a big fan of AT&T business practices. However, in fairness, AT&T has to pay the "roaming" carrier to provide service to their, AT&T's, customer, namely you. Some carriers are better at negotiating roaming agreements than others.
Let me expound upon this:
Two people.
Sitting side by side.
Both using iPhone 4 handsets.
Both downloading 190 megs of data.
Both on the same frequency.
One user has a Canadian billing address.
One user has a US billing address.
One user gets RAPED with a $3000 bill because he/she has a US billing address.
Same phone, same tower, same frequency, same GSM system, same handset, same amount of data...
See where I'm going with this?
Really? One is native, one is roaming. Move the two south of the border and the charges would reverse.yeah, someone's gettin' bent over
Perhaps. Nonetheless, the carriers spend a lot of money measuring where there load is coming from, that is from whose users, and exchanging money over itThere is no such thing as roaming!! Guys, get it through your heads that it's something carriers charge because they CAN, not because they NEED to. Roaming boils down to your billing address and nothing more.
Sorry, but 190 megs of data is not a "load." Hypothetically, there could 500 people downloading 190 megs of data who live there, and one person from another country downloading 190 megs of data. Now where's the load coming from? The 500 people or the one?
Like I said, it boils down to the billing address and nothing more. It costs the same amount of money to modulate a carrier frequency no matter where your billing address is.
Sorry, but 190 megs of data is not a "load." Hypothetically, there could 500 people downloading 190 megs of data who live there, and one person from another country downloading 190 megs of data. Now where's the load coming from? The 500 people or the one?
Like I said, it boils down to the billing address and nothing more. It costs the same amount of money to modulate a carrier frequency no matter where your billing address is.