| We live with usage fees on almost everything else, why not? We live with usage fees on almost everything else, why not the Internet?
Most cell phone plans have caps (included minutes) and usage fees after that.
Long distance calls are billed per usage.
Pay per view.
Netflix n DVDs at a time.
Water, electricity, gas, oil.
Why can's they be unlimited? Or why can they be limited and Internet not?
Just for the record, I don't want limits! 
But if they put limits on Internet usage, the base plan should be really cheap! |
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| Yeah, just like cell phone service, it's so cheap!!!!
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| said by canesfan2001:Yeah, just like cell phone service, it's so cheap!!!! I was thing more like electricity. If you have the service but don't use any you pay less than $10 per month (I think).
The same for natural gas.
Also, my cell phone only costs me $20 every 3 months! But I pay for usage, and the $20 gives me $20 worth of usage. I don't talk much! |
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 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
join:2004-03-20
Albany, CA | reply to AstroBoy
I agree that usage based billing is not a bad thing. If they switched to something akin to what the energy utilities do for usage based billing (small monthly "connection fee" with tiered, metered usage), then that would likely be fine by me.
However, these guys want to charge the same flat rate that we pay now plus make us pay a ridiculous overage fee every time a threshold is crossed. IMO, that is unacceptable. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to AstroBoy
said by AstroBoy:if they put limits on Internet usage, the base plan should be really cheap! like electricity. $10 base fee plus usage. NOT this $50 plus an extremely low cap to maximize profits bullshit!
course this would turn isps favorite subs[emailing grannies] into non fav low revenue generators.
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to AstroBoy
said by AstroBoy:said by canesfan2001:Yeah, just like cell phone service, it's so cheap!!!! I was thing more like electricity. If you have the service but don't use any you pay less than $10 per month (I think). The same for natural gas. Also, my cell phone only costs me $20 every 3 months! But I pay for usage, and the $20 gives me $20 worth of usage. I don't talk much! Well it costs you if you DON'T use it too[minutes expire(my pet peeve with prepaids)]
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | it doesn't bother me that they charge you for not using the service.. why shouldn't they?
The cell companies still have to maintain your number.. they still have to have the network to handle your call if and when you decide to make a call. I mean, what happened if 5,000 people in a small area had a prepaid phone, never used it, new people paid in, and then EVERYONE decided to use that service? I do agree that you can't buy a prepaid card and sit on that card and use in over, say, a year or so.. they'd never be able to remain solvent on that line of business with out getting it from the rest of us who pay a monthly bill. |
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