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Maybe they can’t give you an unlimited plan? Data is seriously expensive for the carriers.
by ugh 15y ago
Maybe they can’t give you an unlimited plan? Data is seriously expensive for the carriers.
- veyron 15y agoMaybe they shouldn't force customers to take an unlimited plan in the first place if they couldn't support it. For a very long time, until you could actually use that much data, att forced us to sign 2-year contracts with unlimited data.
- beedogs 15y ago> Data is seriously expensive for the carriers. That is a load of horseshit.
- batista 15y agoReally? What do you know about the cost of infrastructure and its capacity? Thank you.
- beedogs 15y agoI know enough to conclude that it hasn't gotten more expensive to ship bits in the past ten years. Yet, here we are in the US, shifting from unlimited data plans to rate-limited, capped plans, and no one seems to have come up with a convincing explanation as to why that's occurring.
- veyron 15y agoIt's simple: - unlimited data plans were doled out when network operators knew full well that people couldn't actually use enough data to cause a crisis. - Data usage spiked because people found new uses for phones which demanded more and more data (e.g. streaming shows) - Operators found themselves underdeveloped with no prospect of demand tapering off - At these levels, it maximizes the operator's profits to push people into rate-limited plans.
- ugh 15y agoOf course it has become more expensive to ship bits. More people are finding more uses. Are you deluded or what? How disconnected from reality and how entitled can one be?
- beedogs 15y agoReally? Entitlement? The rest of the developed world has faster, cheaper, and in many cases unlimited data, and you're calling me "entitled" for being incredulous about claims of the "ever-increasing cost of data transfer". But, thanks for the insults. This place is really friendly!
- batista 15y agoI know enough to conclude that it hasn't gotten more expensive to ship bits in the past ten years. Are you kidding me? We went from simple networks to 3G to 4G --which requires new infrastructure deployments every few years. We went from the mobile web being almost nothing to hundreds of millions of very capable mobile web devices in the past ten years (iPhone/iPad/Android...). Network usage increased exponentially with the newer, more useful devices. People were buying "unlimited" plans and used 100-300MB per month, not they can easily go to over several GBs. It's like you have a "unlimited free refills" soda fountain. When everyone has 2-3 drinks it's ok. When everyone starts having 10-20 sodas, well, you start putting some limit to those "unlimited refills".
- batista 15y agoDownvoted? Really? Are these statements of fact and a simple analogy too controversial?