So hears my story and why I think att is up to no good.
I've been on att for many years and I have a lot of friends with them as well.
Now I'm very consistent on how I use my phone and for what but I was always going over by 1 or 2 gigs when several friends and coworkers use there phone way more (streaming movies) then I do and never go over. Well I always just bitched and paid the bill. Well that 1-2 turned into 3-4 gigs and I start really watching my usage as well as my girlfriends, she's on her own account and lets her son watch Netflix all the time and has not once used more then 3gigs total in a month ever! Here I am blowing through 7 gigs and not doing much with my phone.
So at the time I was on a 5gig plan. Now what started to make me wonder is one weekend im home and on WiFi and I started getting the data overage texts and emails, um ok im on WiFi hows this possible within an hour 3 text back to back. So I thought ok I have a data bleed, so I flash a different ROM (HTC one) and everything went back to normal, well the between 2-4 gig overage was still happening.
This goes on consistently 2-4 over for a few more months till I decided I'll get the share plan, 10 gig, guess what first bill 2gigs over!!! WTF then at&t finally slips up I get my bill and its showing a different data usage then my account on line, still can't prove anything yet, so the next month im on point watching data, at&t slipped again, no more than 6 days into the cycle I get a text saying I used half of my data, so I check online and it says I only used 1gig, ok believable but what I check it an hour later and its at 5 gigs, humm ok time to call and this is why I think there skimming.
I call att and tell them what's been going on, pretty much thought I was on crack and wanted prof (I think she thought I wasn't ready hahahaha) well I say I want a supervisor she puts me on hold, the supervisor gets on and we go through the whole deal over again, "well sir that's impossible because its automated and if this was real there would be lots of reports" he said I was the first with this kind of problem, I ask how often is the system updated he says every 12-24 hours (I confirmed this from multiple sources) so I tell him I need a fax number I have alot of stuff to show you, screen shots and emails. Now there is a case open and an investigation.
Now with those 2 clues, 1) its totally automated 2)it updates daily one could speculate that it would be very easy to target a few random accounts say 10,000 or so at $15 a gig that's under the radar pure profits.
I've been on att for many years and I have a lot of friends with them as well.
Now I'm very consistent on how I use my phone and for what but I was always going over by 1 or 2 gigs when several friends and coworkers use there phone way more (streaming movies) then I do and never go over. Well I always just bitched and paid the bill. Well that 1-2 turned into 3-4 gigs and I start really watching my usage as well as my girlfriends, she's on her own account and lets her son watch Netflix all the time and has not once used more then 3gigs total in a month ever! Here I am blowing through 7 gigs and not doing much with my phone.
So at the time I was on a 5gig plan. Now what started to make me wonder is one weekend im home and on WiFi and I started getting the data overage texts and emails, um ok im on WiFi hows this possible within an hour 3 text back to back. So I thought ok I have a data bleed, so I flash a different ROM (HTC one) and everything went back to normal, well the between 2-4 gig overage was still happening.
This goes on consistently 2-4 over for a few more months till I decided I'll get the share plan, 10 gig, guess what first bill 2gigs over!!! WTF then at&t finally slips up I get my bill and its showing a different data usage then my account on line, still can't prove anything yet, so the next month im on point watching data, at&t slipped again, no more than 6 days into the cycle I get a text saying I used half of my data, so I check online and it says I only used 1gig, ok believable but what I check it an hour later and its at 5 gigs, humm ok time to call and this is why I think there skimming.
I call att and tell them what's been going on, pretty much thought I was on crack and wanted prof (I think she thought I wasn't ready hahahaha) well I say I want a supervisor she puts me on hold, the supervisor gets on and we go through the whole deal over again, "well sir that's impossible because its automated and if this was real there would be lots of reports" he said I was the first with this kind of problem, I ask how often is the system updated he says every 12-24 hours (I confirmed this from multiple sources) so I tell him I need a fax number I have alot of stuff to show you, screen shots and emails. Now there is a case open and an investigation.
Now with those 2 clues, 1) its totally automated 2)it updates daily one could speculate that it would be very easy to target a few random accounts say 10,000 or so at $15 a gig that's under the radar pure profits.