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Re: If wireless is different, then so what? said by fAcEtIOUs:said by wierdo:Personally, I think the carriers in other countries have the right idea. You buy unlimited service for whatever price and after the first few GB of transfer in a month, the user gets throttled to a lower speed, to avoid people monopolizing scarce air time. But the same "consumer advocates" that are attacking AT&T, Verizon, etc for using pricing mechanisms or caps & overage charges to manage spectrum would attack just as vociferously if they used the "slow down" method. Face it, nothing that the providers do to manage wireless congestion will be accepted by the champions of the people. How about proof that congestion is actually necessary? You know why that's impossible? Because AT&T et al. are making huge, huge margins on wireless while cutting capex. There's no excuse for their practices, which are unheard of in other developed countries like Japan and the Scandinavian countries. |
