 halo5
join:2000-07-20
Dayton, OH | Greed? That can be the only reason why more cell companies don't embrace WiFi/UMA/VoIP.
You pay your $45/mo. for however many minutes, and then use one of the above. The cell company's network doesn't have to deal with your yacking and you get great reception. They get their money and don't have to deal with your load on the network and you get great call reception. Seems like a sweet deal.
Oh wait, but then there is a much lower chance you'll go over your minutes and be stuck with an overage bill, which is something that cell carriers rely on heavily I'm sure. I'm guessing on average the amount of an overage bill is much more that $10/mo. per person. |
EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | The big problem is that voice services are expensive in part because traditional switched networks are expensive to build and maintained. Packet-switched IP networks are much, much cheaper, but carriers can't depend on them for most customers. Note that 4G networks (LTE, WiMax) are intended to change all that and, once sufficiently deployed, replace ALL voice with VOIP-type services, which will save the cellcos a ton of money in infrastructure costs. |
