I support this video from Public Knowledge. It highlights the idiocy (arrogance?) of AT&T and Verizon, the two major wireless carriers that have imposed arbitrary data use limits on your use of your devices over the networks. “As a result, just about everything that you would use the 4G network for will put you over your limit.” That means you’ll either be paying way more for service after the first day (hour?) of use, or your service will be cut off, depending on your plan. And you’re going to pay extra for this?
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From a telco perspective: wouldn’t it be great to charge users for a month of service, but when those users have used up their limit, those “bandwidth hogs” get cut off? A month’s worth of fees for a day’s worth of service. Wow! The network needs go WAY down, and suddenly bandwidth is available again.
Or a different view: we have all this 4g and nobody using it. Nobody must want high speed access for their mobile devices! Won’t the regulators be surprised?
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I encourage you to read their short version with graphics, or the whole paper online (also PDF). Do you experience a chilling effect?
