Having to wait til 9pm to call people was a crazy time in America

[Sccit]

NEXTEL CHIRP WAS GOAT SHIIT THO

STILL NOT SURE WHY THEY EVER GOT RID OF IT

 

[Knowledge]

Look at this youngster over here

go outside grown folks talking

but seriously the major cell companies had shyt like unlimited minutes after 9 and other shyt that is crazy looking back at it. I think it went away around the time the Iphone 3g drop or a little bit afterwards.

Didnt Nextel have something like unlimited minutes to other nextel users no matter the time?

Fool im 34

 

[Ironman]

Having to wait to talk to your crush just staring at the clock like Calls and yall don't get off the phone til the sun starts rising

 

[Bubba T]

L


Textfree or whatever changed the game

Bruh, the iPhone changed the game.

It was literally the first phone that blew people away to be able to use the actual internet (not shytty mobile internet) on your phone. The ability to download apps and use it as an alternative changed the game. AT&T charged a mandatory $30 premium on their plans just to use data on the iPhone. Once the iPhone began coming on other platforms, then the moaning from companies about “power users” hogging and slowing down the network came to foray and “limits” were introduced.

Once companies saw how popular the iPhone was and how they much money they can make on data, they more or less bushed their limits on voice and text as the money wasn’t there anymore.

 

[breakfuss]

Fool im 34

So then how the hell do you not remember these restrictions

 

[boriquaking]

L


Textfree or whatever changed the game

I worked for at&t during all this, charging per text became obsolete prior to those apps and iMessage becoming popular.

With the switch from 2g to 3g that brought along wireless data, so that became the new “cool thing” to nickel and dime. Anytime you opened a webpage on your LG Chocolate or downloaded a song on your Motorola Razor, you were being charged by the kilobyte ().

Free messaging became an incentive to bring you in, and it was much easier to maintain that high volume on 3g

 

[Pure Water]

If you had Sprint it was 7. That’s when Sprint was actually good too.

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Kids just out here sending willynilly texts for no reason cause they’re unlimited



I say we put the cap back on and watch them crumble

yeah, they have no idea what its like having to log
Into your slow ass phone internet just to send texts to begin with.





.

 

[staticshock]

Phone companies got away with murder back then.


We need the same revolution for insurance & cable companies

 

[Billie Jean]

So sweet

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Feel sorry for nikkas who had to really do business through the beeper years

 

[Sugarbush]

I’m so spoiled now took a sec to figure out what OP was talking about

 

[Grifter]

That's why chirp phones got so popular.

 

[Rembrandt]

AT&T charged a mandatory $30 premium on their plans just to use data on the iPhone. Once the iPhone began coming on other platforms, then the moaning from companies about “power users” hogging and slowing down the network came to foray and “limits” were introduced.

Damn, I actually didn know that. An extra $30 is a crazy surcharge and I still believe that data limit caps are bullshyt and will eventually go away on mobile and internet. Like I got fiber and they immediately got rid of the data cap

I worked for at&t during all this, charging per text became obsolete prior to those apps and iMessage becoming popular.

With the switch from 2g to 3g that brought along wireless data, so that became the new “cool thing” to nickel and dime. Anytime you opened a webpage on your LG Chocolate or downloaded a song on your Motorola Razor, you were being charged by the kilobyte ().

Free messaging became an incentive to bring you in, and it was much easier to maintain that high volume on 3g

Man, I know you saw lots of subs from those "pay .99 for this ring tone or $5 for this tomb raider side scroller *and $30 every month*" scams in magazines.

Used to just hold my phone to the TV during 106 and record lmaoooo

 

[Malik1time]

The good ole days
Damn
When a shawty told you to call her house phone a certain time you would brag to all the nikkas at school
When your crush sends you a note in class you get a mini heart attack when you pick it up only for the bytch to say “you got the answers for the homework”