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It’s somewhat needed. 15 dollars a gb is just to raise revenue. But a truly unlimited 4G hotspot service would crawl to stop during busy periods. Some sort of
by rhino369 8y ago
It’s somewhat needed. 15 dollars a gb is just to raise revenue.
But a truly unlimited 4G hotspot service would crawl to stop during busy periods.
Some sort of rationing is needed.
- Rychard 8y agoSeems like this is a pain-point that was self-inflicted by the companies themselves; selling service to many people without the infrastructure to back it up. That said, I'm not suggesting companies deploy 1:1 infrastructure in lock-step with sales. Power/Water companies plan for peak demand periods. What prevents ISPs from being able to do the same?
- asdff 8y agoMost people don't come close to hitting their cap unless they accidentally update their 200mb apps on the data connection.
- AnssiH 8y agoIt seems to work just fine here in Finland, it is a very common alternative to wired home connections (seems to be about 50-50 split: https://www.ficom.fi/ict-ala/tilastot/kotitalouksien-laajakaistaliittymät https://www.ficom.fi/ict-ala/tilastot/kotitalouksien-laajaka...). No data caps, so you can use terabytes of data without throttling if you want to.