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Hard to consider it "dumping" when you look at competitive offerings. For example, Comcast (Xfinity Mobile) offers a $12/month 1GB prepaid plan, and they don't
by jaywalk 7y ago
Hard to consider it "dumping" when you look at competitive offerings. For example, Comcast (Xfinity Mobile) offers a $12/month 1GB prepaid plan, and they don't even own the networks they use. $15/month for 2GB on your own network is entirely reasonable.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoI assume buying mobile service from sellers other than the network owner themselves makes you a second class citizen on the network and subject to throttling or whatever QoS they use to make your traffic lower priority. I even assume that you are getting prioritized depending on how much you pay or how politically important you are for the networks. I.e. a $20 prepaid ATT customer is lower priority than a $80 post paid unlimited customer which is lower priority than a US Senator.
- jaywalk 7y agoOf course, but that's been a fact of life forever.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoYes, I was agreeing that it isn't dumping since it's a different product since the services are lower priority than more expensive ones. But it's not explicitly stated, which now that I think about it, should be a required disclosure.
- kube-system 7y agoFWIW, a lot of MVNOs on other networks were faster than first-party service on Sprint.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoI am curious for Sprint's reasons for allowing that.
- kube-system 7y agoNot MVNOs on Sprint -- MVNOs on other networks. For instance, Straight Talk on AT&T isn't (or wasn't) even throttled. Other MVNOs, even if they were throttled on Verizon, were still quicker than Sprint's network.