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AT&T will start charging any data usage over 5gigs for all new customers and contracts mobile broadband cards and phones. From my perspective it feels like AT&T is trying to force people into leaving their network. What does Dell think their target market is going to be with the Streak? If they are looking for people that have money to blow, people are going to pick up a Ipad or an Iphone. The only benifit to Dell would have been if they had gone with any of the other carriers. I don't know if there's dirty money here or if someone got a new flat panel for their bedroom or a new addition put onto their house for going exclusively with AT&T, but this could be the most obviously bad decision for a single product launch ever. If Dell wants to start expanding into the cell phone market they are going to have to listen to the customers currently on all of the carriers networks. Sprint has decent coverage, no bandwidth cap, and is the first to deploy 4g, which uses WiMax which is currently the fastest wireless deployment provided by any of the carriers. Next is Verizon which has concentrated on their 3g coverage which it is slightly better than Sprint, but has yet to offically release any 4g phones or support any 4g cell sites. Then we have AT&T, their coverage is comparable to Verizon, but has been plagued by an untold number of outages, has instituted a bandwidth cap, and their customer service is in many people's opinions the worst, oh and no mention of 4g anything... Yea the iphone 4 was only IOS version 4, not the iphone 4g which many people are confused about. Dell has some potential with their product, but not as it currently stands.
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