Hi can someone explain how the system in the states works regarding the internet?
Here in the UK the main system is as follows.......
most landline phone companies put a router on your phone connection and supply you internet, roughly you pay to rent the phone line, any calls you make (some are free or special prices etc but dosnt matter foe this), and you pay from around £25 a month to use upto a max amount of internet data.
I dont know the figures for the phone service like this, we have never had a home landline. So we have never had pone internet(actually we have but i was too young to remember it). Then like Willen you mobile phone internet, this is often really expensive.
You but a phone and your given a few GB per month of internet to use on your phone, mainly these days you cant connect pc's to your mobile phone or what is called wireless tethering. Once you used all your internet data then you start to pay a premium for every meg of data you go over.
My system is totally different, it does not actually exist anymore, sure one day i am going to wake up and no mobile phone or internet! About 6 years ago my dad took a really expensive mobile phone contract out, it was expensive because it included what at the time was one the best and newest smart phones ever. The phone was a samsung galaxay note II, it runs KIT KAT 1.1!.
The contract was 2 years, but the phone had pc tethering built into the phone software. The phone plan gave you the Note II phone, 5000 mins any phone talk mins, 10,000 txt's and 500 UNLIMITED internet data and 500 3 to 3 phone mins.
3 to 3 phone mins roll over every month, what they are talk mins to any other phone on the 3 network (the network this phone is phone is on). Most people use other companies but my family and some my mates use 3, so when i call them the mins are taken from my 3 to 3 mins first, any left each month roll over and add on to the next month.
This phone plan was called the one plan, i think it finally finished back in 2014 or 2015, the 2 year contract ended around 2014. This meant instead of paying £75 a month (£45 was for the phone handset!!) the bill dropped to around £30 a month. But there is a little legal thing on the account.
My mum was the person who signed on behalf of the company when they took all 4 of the phones on contract, 2 have gone and 2 are left, i inherited my dads. my mum pays it out of her account and i give her the money, its no longer under contract. Now the legal bit.......
They over charged for 5 months for the handset after the that part of the contract ended, but on the one plan contract itself it states the following..........
Once the contract expires 3 will continue to honor the contract as long as you want to have it, as long as you pay the correct amount in full. Its actually more legal than that, but keep it simple. While its still inside the contract time frame they can alter the amount you pay per month by giving you 60 days notice.
Now that is how we have kept the phone on the same plan for the same price for 6 years, we pay the bill and the contract states that means we continue to get service, but they dont offer eat all you like data anymore, but they cant change it or charge more because the contract says they can do that only while we are under contract which we are not. We are under what is called a rolling contract. They cant block me from tethering any number of computers to my phone data line because my phone software is too old!
I use Kit Kat and there system cant control my phone because KIT KAT 1.1 was made as a secure encrypted OS.
. My monthly usage on data is roughly 3TB a month.......Yeah they call and ask us to change to a new plan and tell us they no longer do ours, yes they moan, but as i point out to them. We have kept our side of the deal always and expect them to do the same...