| Unlimited data is going the way of the dodo I think Americans are going to have to wake up to the fact that "unlimited" internet access is going bye-bye. All access is provided to us through giant corporations always looking to find new revenue streams and cut costs to the bone to make shareholders happy. Therefore, usage caps with overage charges (or even per-byte pricing) are going to become the norm. Remember, the service providers don't compete so much as collude, with the help of their puppet congressmen and FCC leaders.
You want true unlimited access forever? Move to Asia. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Collusion is illegal- do you have any evidence of this?
I think there very well have to be technical reasons for considering instituting a cap- otherwise it doesn't make too much sense when the company is already losing customers. |
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 a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY | wait, does this cap apply to off-network roaming, or is it for on-network transfers? Because it looks like the article is implying that Sprint only does this if a sub. goes over 5 GB while off-net. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to EPS
said by EPS:Collusion is illegal- do you have any evidence of this? Only explicit collusion is illegal, if CEO of Sprint and Verizon play a game of golf for example.
Tacit collusion (copying your competitor) is perfectly legal, atleast with the courts right now (courts won't make a new ruling making tacit collusion suable under case law). |
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