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ALLTEL SHUTS DOWN BLUETOOTH...

by Larry <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Nov 3, 2007 at 06:29 PM

Read elsewhere about my buggy moto E815's poor internet service 
dropping data calls left and right.  The E815 firmware sucks.

Alltel has replaced my E815 with three phones, ending up this 
morning with a new ROKR for $150 more money.

Here's the TRUTH AS I FOUND IT.....
ALLTEL HAS SHUT DOWN ALL BLUETOOTH ACCESS EXCEPT HEADSETS AND 
HANDSFREE ON ALL NEW ALLTEL PHONES....

The story ends this morning....

I entered Alltel's Local store at 9AM and informed, politely as I 
could, that the Samsung I got yesterday wasn't going to work, 
then, after calling Her Immenseness, our manager, we got a 
blessing for "ONLY ONE MORE PHONE SWAP" to the Motorola ROKR.  It 
will cost me about $60 next month for the "Upgrade" as they took 
back the Samsung, gave me credit for the defective product E815 
who's Bluetooth WORKED WITH MY DUN.....then washed their hands of 
me warning this was the last phone I was going to trade out.

The ROKR, the latest and greatest Alltel has paired very 
successfully with the Nokia N800.  I paired from the Nokia 
because the ROKR ONLY HAS FACILITIES TO PAIR WITH 
HEADSETS/HANDSFREE!  This should have been my FIRST indication of 
trouble.  Look for yourselves....only headsets and handsfree 
Bluetooth.

The ROKR popped up a window saying a Nokia N800 wanted to pair 
and I said YES.  THEN, another window popped up saying a Nokia 
N800 was asking for DUN internet access and did I want to accept 
or reject...I picked ACCEPT!  THE MOTOROLA ROKR SUP****TS AND 
ACCEPTS THE DUN ACCESS REQUEST OF THE NOKIA N800.  (Keep this in 
mind...because it ain't gonna happen any more!)

Now, note that my N800 tablet DID have access through the 
defective E815 phone to Alltel over Bluetooth DUN....I have pages 
of data access on my bill to prove it to hizzoner during the 
court proceedings.  And, note that the new Moto ROKR DOES have 
DUN capabilities and DID accept my request for DUN access to the 
internet through the ROKR's DUN profile, pairing successfully.  
You can see it both on the ROKR's list of paired devices and on 
the Nokia's BT devices pairing list.  If you open the ROKR's 
pairing from the N800's list, it lists successful pairing via 
DUN, OPP and FTP.  (The ROKR doesn't sup****t SPP.)

BUT....and I want everyone you know to know this....ALLTEL HAS 
SHUT DOWN ALL BLUETOOTH ACCESS TO ALL ITS PHONES EXCEPT FOR 
HEADSETS AND HANDSFREE DEVICES.....AND WILL NOT TURN THEM BACK 
ON.

Alltel Data Sup****t blamed Motorola for turning it off in 
response to the goddamned ringtone business.  Motorola's software 
department, and I talked to them DIRECTLY this morning for over 
an hour, said this is a lie.  ALLTEL turned it all off, as did 
all the other carriers SELLING RINGTONES....which makes lots more 
sense!  Motorola and the other manufacturers providing DUN and 
other BT profiles on their equipment could give a **** less about 
ringtone sales....CARRIERS SELL RINGTONES and would do anything 
short of killing their mothers to prevent you from sharing what 
they sell!  Does that make more sense to you?...(c;

SO, I WENT FROM INTERMITTENT SELLULAR INTERNET SERVICE DUE TO THE 
E815'S BUGGY FIRMWARE....TO NO SELLULAR INTERNET SERVICE WITH A 
BRAND NEW MOTOROLA ROKR FROM ALLTEL'S OWN STORE.

Internet over bluetooth has been shut down, quite successfully if 
I can't find a hack for it....where I'm going now....(c;

Goddamn them all....sure wish my business didn't depend on this 
SELLular for its phone service or I'd get off Sellular for good!

My tablet still works great on wifi....and there's more wifi 
everywhere.  WiMax is coming....(c;


Larry
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Now we're just as bad as Verizon....lies, lies, lies.
 




 4 Posts in Topic:
ALLTEL SHUTS DOWN BLUETOOTH...
Larry <noone@[EMAIL PR  2007-11-03 18:29:42 
Re: ALLTEL SHUTS DOWN BLUETOOTH...
Steve Sobol <sjsobol@[  2007-11-03 19:37:31 
Re: ALLTEL SHUTS DOWN BLUETOOTH...
Larry <noone@[EMAIL PR  2007-11-05 02:48:01 
Re: ALLTEL SHUTS DOWN BLUETOOTH...
Larry <noone@[EMAIL PR  2007-11-16 19:25:10 

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