Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL | reply to fiberguy
Re: Welcome to the club.... That's all well and good but I feel you are leaving out a few important points.
One of the big talking points over the past few years from telco lobbyists has been wireline services do not need to be regulated because there is plenty of competition. One of their shining examples is the wireless data market. But wireless can not be a true competitor to wireline with such low caps.
Also as Mr. Burstein points out in his analysis, the networks can handle bigger caps. With LTE being more efficient than 3g will we see more reasonable caps introduced as that service is rolled out? If it was truly a move to protect the network, the caps would be based on what the engineers are saying the network can handle. The fact that they are so low is to stifle the migration to the services you talk about in your post. If we had a real competitive market it wouldn't be a problem, as AT&T and Verizon would be punished by the market place. But the government has allowed them to grow so huge through mergers, that their power over Sprint and T-mobile is immense.
It's like with wireline. They never offered unlimited voice service until the cable companies came along with their unlimited service and started bleeding their business. Luckily we had a 2nd pipe into the home that was easily able to launch a competing service after investing in the technology. Any newcomer into the wireless market will not start with the same coverage T and VZ have. That was cable's trojan horse. Already being hooked up to almost every home.
For the record I do not subscribe to a wireless data service. |
