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In what way is it possibly beneficial to me as a user to have metered Internet for all cases rather than unlimited for most cases and metered for others?

• duaneb 11y ago
  Because, when I look around, I don't see internet being offered at a e.g. per GB rate. So I don't think your dichotomy is correct; I think people WOULD look quite favorably on metered tethered data with up-front costs as opposed to a cap with hidden metered fees or retroactive fines. However, even if it WERE correct, I much prefer to think of internet as a service. It is incredibly frustrating to deal with tiers that are only slowly approaching the reality they use to defend the tiers themselves. I'm very open to the idea that bandwidth might be a dominating restriction, but the optimal way to deal with it would be a) transparency and b) incentivizing avoiding congestion. However, I'm afraid to tether my computer and actually take advantage of the service I'm paying for since the tools are horrible to actually figure out what the costs might be or how to avoid them.
  • chc 11y ago
    T-Mobile offers apps with up-to-the-minute accounting of your usage, and at least with me, they were quite explicit about how everything is priced. It doesn't seem that hard or scary to me, and I've never gotten "shock" bills from them.