| Can't have one and not the other Let me get this straight.
ATT wants the consumer to use less data?
This is the same argument as the wired ISPs.
But the trend is scaling towards more and I don't see ATTs plan as viable considering.
ATT pimps the iPhone which is appealing to most because of the Apps...And the majority of these apps work because of the data connection. Music and video streaming, searching, facebook, twitter, email etc.
Does ATT know it's going to get worse for them and no amount of "educating" is going to prevent this?
The more "stuff" that's out there and the more tech companies push the "cloud" onto consumers it's obvious at where this is going.
And I don't care how much they want to educate us....data is confusing. Yeah, we get minutes and understand if we are on a call for about 5 minutes we've used up about 5 minutes of our monthly minutes--easy. Now you launch your facebook app and spend 30 minutes goofing around how many bytes did you use? Exactly.
Metering by the byte will be a disaster.
Example, on my Blackberry I download some twitter app and it bombs at 90%...what do I do, pay for more bytes to get it again or call ATT and ask them to clear those bytes from my account? Or maybe call the app developer and make them pay for my bytes? What if RIM pushes an update to my Blackberry? Who pays for that.
It will get real messy real fast considering nobody knows how to price bytes in the first place. |
