> However most all > cellular carriers are moving away from per minute plans to unlimited > plans. Which of course unlimited is not unlimited, at least not with > regard to data. They don't have a cap at this time to my knowledge. But > will throttle you back to slower speeds once you use so much.
Ironic how ISP's have taken the opposite approach (starting unlimited, changing to limited). I expect what we will see will look like this. Unlimited internet usage.... as usage increases, limits increase. Eventually, we will catch up with the caps with the explosion of streaming TV, cloud applications, etc. Those caps will then be transformed into usage plans similar to cell phones. Eventually, competition will cause unlimited plans to come back. I don't say this with any authority, just what I believe might happen. On a note about overage with cell phone companies though, they will sting you the hardest. I had a good friend who worked with sprint let me use his air card. It has a 5gb/month usage cap, however, he is an employee and informed me that the usage cap does not apply to him. Being mindful that I shouldn't abuse it, I still monitored my bandwidth and made sure to stay within reasonable distance of the 5gb cap. This was difficult having 3 computers routed through the 3g connection, but still managed to use only about 10-15gb during the month of my highest usage (thanks, youtube). My friend then sent me a message saying he was charged $600 for overage though he was informed he wasn't being capped. He got it worked out with his company because he was pretty high up there, but I suspect had he been an "average joe" he would have out $600 for honestly a very small amount of data. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
