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Sally
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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: Hey 3G Store guys.... How's sales? |
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This is really meant to be a respectful question..  Really, it is.
How are sales for the Sprint EVDO cards, etc since the 5 gig for $60 / month took affect?
What's your take on this? Is Sprint still seeing the sales as if nothing has happened?
Inquring minds wanna know.
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Alex
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firedude
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Alex wrote: | | you wouldn't believe how many people can actually stay under 5gb/mo |
Oh yes I would. It's not hard at all. |
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Black05Hemi
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| Of course it's not hard, as long as you don't want to download anything, or watch any streaming video...5GB is a joke |
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ebiz
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It seems we're caught up on an IT turf war. Enterprising forces wish to supply as much multimedia as possible over the net. Recognizing the rapid growth in data transfer, the service providers are attempting to "stake out their turf". They do not wish to pay for the far greater transfer rates so they are setting unrealistically low ceilings that will force an examination of the problem.
What is apparent is that there is conscious restraint on both sides not to take each other on. Have any of us heard a service provider complain publicly of the burden Netflicks puts on US network (a single movie is from 400-900 MB)? Instead they just leave us to weather through the silent conflict in frustration.
My sense is that in another year or so, a growing number of cable and DSL providers will also implement data limits. That will force and variety of proposals on cost sharing. More expensive consumer and business data packages will be announced. Strong arguments will also be made (with substantial congressional donations) that the government should, in some way, share the burden.
The battle will slow multimedia entrepreneurship, but it will also raise the public discussion of the real cost of data transfer and expose invalid arguments.
One of the major drivers of the data limits being imposed is that the service providers don't want to go the way of the telcos, which have lost temendous profits with the growth of audio and video conferencing through messenger programs and internet telephony.
How it will all turn out is difficult to determine in countries where governments are so effectively controlled by corporate interests. One would think the costs of data transfer should approach zero with technological advancements. On the other hand we live in an age when corporate interests can cause the US government to deny global warming, to avoid so much as encouraging car pooling in the face of rising energy costs and to deny its citizens the right to purchase pharmaceuticals from Canada.
We'll see how the data game turns out...
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waynefoutz
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| ebiz wrote: | It seems we're caught up on an IT turf war. Enterprising forces wish to supply as much multimedia as possible over the net. Recognizing the rapid growth in data transfer, the service providers are attempting to "stake out their turf". They do not wish to pay for the far greater transfer rates so they are setting unrealistically low ceilings that will force an examination of the problem.
What is apparent is that there is conscious restraint on both sides not to take each other on. Have any of us heard a service provider complain publicly of the burden Netflicks puts on US network (a single movie is from 400-900 MB)? Instead they just leave us to weather through the silent conflict in frustration.
My sense is that in another year or so, a growing number of cable and DSL providers will also implement data limits. That will force and variety of proposals on cost sharing. More expensive consumer and business data packages will be announced. Strong arguments will also be made (with substantial congressional donations) that the government should, in some way, share the burden.
The battle will slow multimedia entrepreneurship, but it will also raise the public discussion of the real cost of data transfer and expose invalid arguments.
One of the major drivers of the data limits being imposed is that the service providers don't want to go the way of the telcos, which have lost temendous profits with the growth of audio and video conferencing through messenger programs and internet telephony.
How it will all turn out is difficult to determine in countries where governments are so effectively controlled by corporate interests. One would think the costs of data transfer should approach zero with technological advancements. On the other hand we live in an age when corporate interests can cause the US government to deny global warming, to avoid so much as encouraging car pooling in the face of rising energy costs and to deny its citizens the right to purchase pharmaceuticals from Canada.
We'll see how the data game turns out... |
I think the wireless companies are implementing caps are just to weed out anyone who is impacting the network negatively and impact people's ability to use their phones. I'm in the trucking industry, and many of my peers also have data cards from the various carriers. In the last month or so, since Sprint joined the fray, I've talked to several of my co-workers who have verizon cards. Not one of them even knew they had a cap, much less have ever been charged for going over. As I've said, it remains to be seen how tough Sprint's enforcement will be.
The cable companies, such as Comcast and RoadRunner, there is a far more sinister reason they would be implementing caps. In fact, Comcast has all ready taken this step. The last thing a cable company wants you to be doing is piping hulu.com and netflix movies to your tv. They want that extra cable subscription. This whole thing has me almost missing the old dial-up days when I could pay a privately owned company up the street for my internet access instead of these giant uncaring corporations. I haven't heard of any DSL companies implementing caps, at least not in the US, but then you aren't going to watch hi-def movie video streams on a 700kbps down connection either. |
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