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Are you really going to blame a company for being cautious? God forbid they keep shareholders in mind. Might as well just be idiots and have the whole network become useless just like with what happened to Sprint a few months back. And upgrading towers costs millions of dollars. That's being cheap?

Sure, the AT&T isn't perfect, but if you are going to bitch, how about have an educated argument to back it?]]>Sep 17th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/Sep 18th 2009 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/Sep 17th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/Sep 17th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/
Thoughts fellow Engadget peoples? Garmin, TomTom, DadDad, you listening?]]>Sep 17th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/
Or, you know, just keep charging more for less. It's ok, the American government will support your oligopoly.]]>Sep 17th 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/
For one thing, the current way they do things has millions of people paying for landlines. That's awesome for their bottom line.

U-Verse rocks,and I hate that I live somewhere where I can no longer get it, but if it really was so cheap to do what ATT isn't doing, someone else would do it and eat their lunch.]]>Sep 17th 2009 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/
PS.. NO.. edge will not affect 3G, and vice versa.. you stupid bastards.]]>Sep 17th 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/
This proposal strikes me as the kind of thing that emerges from a chain of reasoning that goes something like this:

Alice: "We want to charge $15 a month for this service"
Bob: "Nobody will pay $15 for real-time traffic"
Alice: "OK, what else can we throw in that uses data?"
Bob: "How about some internet stuff? And I hear social networking is big with the kids."
Carol: "Um, you do realize nobody wants any of that stuff, right?"
Bob & Alice: "This isn't about what people want to buy. It's about what we want to sell."

Hey Garmin: give me real-time optimized routing and I'll pay a few bucks a month. Anything else is just clutter.]]>Sep 17th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/garmins-nulink-service-powered-by-atandt-more-connected-nuvis/"subscription renewal price for data services is $5.00/month."

Just sayin'
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