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Re: How Many Times Will Mobile Operators Repeat the Same Mistake?

Michael Kimsal — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:05:17 -0000

Why should they change or care? They'll keep doing it because there's only a handful of limited choices for most end users. When you've only got one or two options in an area for service, you'll take what's given or do without. There's nothing "they" need to learn. "They" are probably wondering when "we" will "learn" that they're going to keep doing this regardless of what we say/do, because ultimately "we" keep going out and buying the shiny new toys regardless of what terms are attached to them. Certainly enough people keep buying regardless of terms to make it worthwhile.

Re: How Many Times Will Mobile Operators Repeat the Same Mistake?

Denton Burr — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:39:25 -0000

I agree that carriers are evil. Especially when compared with some of the ones overseas but in reality peak usage is usually much hairier than normal load and they have to build up capacity and infrastructure to handle the increase load.

I say too bad for them. They are making a great profit and we pay much more than most of our European neighbors do for less bandwidth.

With corporate greed being what it is they analyze the traffic and see that a few users are responsible for a considerable amount of traffic and they don't want them. Maximize profits for existing equipment without increasing costs.

I think this should be dealt with by congress to disallow these artificial limits. Problem is, who contributes to their campaigns. It is a losing battle at the moment.

Re: How Many Times Will Mobile Operators Repeat the Same Mistake?

Paul Glazowski — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:19:29 -0000

I wonder how many people really reach 1GB of data per month. I imagine not many. Not enough that a service provider should hassle with per-subscriber limits. I think it's all a wash. Some go over, some fall far short. The absurdity with the ISP limits (Comcast specifically) is pretty much the same thing.

Re: How Many Times Will Mobile Operators Repeat the Same Mistake?

Arturo Servin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:28:37 -0000

Carriers are evil. I just hate them when they offer "unlimited" service with small letters saying "fair usage policy" or "1GB per month allowed". They are evil