| Getting to the real price for services. This plan is a major step in the progression of the death of "voice" plans. We've all known they haven't existed for a while...it's all just data. I thought carriers would keep up the farce longer, "no those are your voice minutes, this is your data plan", but I'm glad to see it.
In 6 months or a year we might see plans offered as just bandwidth allotment/month. You can text and call pretty much as much as you want since it uses almost no bandwidth, but you will still pay a premium to use data services on the go. That is, until Clear starts offering Wimax phones and forcing mobile carriers to lower the price at which they provide data. Clear is a data wholesaler, and the mobile companies who don't have the bandwidth to be competitive in pricing in the future will become irrelevant. |
