| Verizon and other US Carriers are full of it. If Verizon, ATT, et al. were really only concerned with bandwidth usage and strain on their network they would implement what is being done here in Europe. For unlimited 3G Internet you get the first 5 Gigs at full speed, after that your connection gets throttled to GPRS speed. That gives a user no limit on how much they can consume, leaves in tact a Flat Rate Pricing model, and encourages a user to be conscious and reasonable about their Internet consumption. |
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| said by bakorican:If Verizon, ATT, et al. were really only concerned with bandwidth usage and strain on their network they would implement what is being done here in Europe. For unlimited 3G Internet you get the first 5 Gigs at full speed, after that your connection gets throttled to GPRS speed. That gives a user no limit on how much they can consume, leaves in tact a Flat Rate Pricing model, and encourages a user to be conscious and reasonable about their Internet consumption. Wireless capacity is not the seemingly limitless infrastructure FIBER to the _anything_ has and is throttled, tiered and otherwise limited in the last mile(s). That said, wireless carriers will stunt the growth of handsets and wireless standards with their greed, extra fees & taxes.. but what else would you expect from Verizon and the rest?
A usage based model that works similar to a cablemodem throttling as you have mentioned will probably be the order of the day, but all in all you SHOULD be able to use voip over it without a dropout or similar problem while in motion, or at least that's the kind of application that would create an evolution of the wireless data marketplace-- making millions of DATA subscribers out of what is now only millions of VOICE subscribers (that use a data network). |
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I think that is a very reasonable option and would take care of most issues people have.
The only caveat is that I would like to see them increase the cap as overall usage goes up.
With LTE, I would expect this to be in the neighborhood of 30-50+GBs. |
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| said by jdjbuffalo:I think that is a very reasonable option and would take care of most issues people have. The only caveat is that I would like to see them increase the cap as overall usage goes up. With LTE, I would expect this to be in the neighborhood of 30-50+GBs. I`m in Japan and there are no caps on usage. 3G works everywhere, and I mean *everywhere*, and I have never heard about any problems with capacty whatsoever. Voice plans are also much cheaper here. |
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