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It obviously is. Just mobile companies thinking they can still gouge prices and corner people. But this time people have an comparison; they know that they can
by revelation 15y ago
It obviously is. Just mobile companies thinking they can still gouge prices and corner people. But this time people have an comparison; they know that they can download 5GB over their home line in a matter of an hour.
And that is food for thought when your provider is giving you 5GB or otherwise limited plans _for a whole month_ while marketing phones with transfer rates well above (or on par) with most home connections.
- dsr_ 15y agoAs usual, assuming that corporations are competent but lying about their motivations is helpful. In this case, the observed effects of throttling are: - customers paying more money for overages - customers with grandfathered unlimited plans sticking around even if they might be better off elsewhere - customers reducing usage - customers paying more for higher limits - customers at the right edge of the graph looking elsewhere