I just saw my monthly bill for the time I was in Egypt and Israel. I'm paying AT&T nearly FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS for data service! I'll get over a hundred of it back, but they're a huge corporation. One can only assume their resources are greater than mine. Why in the world should I have to carry $100+ for a month? Well, of course the answer is because that's how they get to be a huge corporation.
But I'm annoyed. I'm extremely annoyed, because I told them when I'd come back and they said I was all set for the charge to drop off. Then they had to change my data plan and they were supposed to backdate the change. Apparently that didn't happen.
I happen to dislike Verizon even more than AT&T -- they may have great service now, but I'm still stuck on the Verizon wireless router that wouldn't carry the signal through the sheetrock and metal walls in my house. I had to buy a real router to get the signal all the way through my apt.
Four hundred dollars for ten days worth of internet access. I am SOOOO hacking my phone before my next trip so I can buy a foreign sim card. If these guys would pay half as much attention to their technical infrastructure as they do to screwing the little guy out of every possible penny, then we might actually have an unrestricted flow of information and people might be able to get work done on their wireless devices instead of walking around in crappy moods because the little pieces of garbage don't work.
After I don't know how many years with the iPhone, I may be ready to go to 'droid...
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