| reply to BF69
Re: Same price as post-paid Perhaps VZ is on to something...checking your favorite "social networking thingie", weather, news, coupon web site for free drinks, map providers and a few searches for validation of trivia at the club...what does that take in terms of bandwidth?
I do recall paying 1.20 an hour or so to a packet network to get to an ISP at one time (the phone call was free). It was valuable to me, not to very many others at the time...
Price should reflect value, not costs...apparently there are a ton of people out there paying for more bandwidth than they need (if priced on average usage). That reflects value (measly in your opinion but maybe alot in someone else's).
Of course, those economists out there will tell you price reflects costs when there is "perfect competition". We need much more of that before we will see costs overcome value...
Pre-paid will eventually become the norm...no reason the carriers need to extend credit if the customers will pay for it upfront (they already sell their devices that way, as do cable companies).
said by BF69:Exact same amount the rip off the post-paid customers. I'm not sure what they think someone is going to do with a measly 25 MB( 853 KB a day ). At least at&t gives you 200 MB. |
