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If 95% of people use less than 2GB per month, why did they need to change the plans? Surely the people using gigantic amounts of data are breaking the terms of
by pohl 16y ago
If 95% of people use less than 2GB per month, why did they need to change the plans? Surely the people using gigantic amounts of data are breaking the terms of service and can be dealt with.
I think it's a better policy to gently disuade, via pricing structure, people from going hog-wild on consuming a finite, shared resource. Trying to handle each case on the back end as a TOS violation sounds a lot more messy, expensive, and reactive to me.
You know there are probably guys out there who would torrent hundreds of movies over a tethered phone or share their MP3 collection over Limewire (ok, I'm dating myself), or perpetually stream video if they thought to themselves "hey, it's free". This pricing structure is designed to make those guys feel the pinch, as well they should. There's only so much spectrum in the neighborhood of a given tower.