[IP] more on Cell Carriers to Web Customers: Use Us, but Not Too Much
I use t-mobile and if you have a Express capable phone you get about
80-100 kb for 19.95/m djf
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rob Carlson <rob@xxxxxxxx>
Date: May 11, 2006 12:01:38 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Cell Carriers to Web Customers: Use Us, but Not Too
Much
On Thu, 11 May 2006, David Farber wrote:
"The pricing scheme is established," Mr. Beebe said. "It's flat-
rate unlimited. That's what consumers are used to, and that's how
it's going to be."
This is exactly why I left AT&T Wireless to go to T-Mobile a few
years ago. At the time, AT&T Wireless' GPRS packages were offered in
megabytes. I believe at the time I had a a 4MB package for $7/mo,
with some pretty obnoxious overage fees metered by the kilobyte.
At the exact same time, T-Mobile was offering unlimited for $20/mo.
When I cancelled my old service, a retention rep at AT&T even made an
effort to offer me an unlimited plan but the best they could come up
with was $70/mo for unlimited on top of my $50/mo voice minutes.
Even on months where I use a few hundred KB of data access, I'm still
happy to pay the $20/mo flat fee because I know the next month I
might spend a week on the road and rack up several hundred megabytes
in the car and in various coffee houses and client sites.
I may be capped at 56k throughput by the nature of the GPRS network
but I know I can do whatever I want to within the boundary of that
bandwidth cap, and I know my bill that month will be within a few
dollars of what it was the month before.
I do believe that since then, AT&T Wireless begat Cingular begat AT&T
Wireless have assumed more logical pricing plans, but since I'm
already a happy customer of a competitor why would I look back?
--
Rob Carlson rob@xxxxxxxx http://vees.net/
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