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reply to jgkolt
Re: satallite link

Someone got a decoder ring for that post?

Wireless (cellular) network pricing is all about perceived value and add-on trinkets not the cost to provide. Ever since the modern cell phone emerged from the primordial AMPS ooze the costs have plummeted. Back then 39 cents per minute local and $1-$3 per minute while roaming was the norm and minute packages were absurdly expensive if available at all. Cell phones were a business product and they worked well.

Today it's a consumer-driven product which works just well enough to keep your typical teenager yapping and texting and sending pictures to each other that their parents would die over if they saw the contents.

I see this equipment being used to boot off "abusers" more than to adjust pricing. Why should the wireless carriers lower the cost of their data plans just because it doesn't cost them nearly as much as voice or "email" (isn't that still data?) does if the kids are willing to pay out the nose for it?
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