Fair price for an unlimited wireless data plan?
Displaying poll results.27856 total votes.
Most Votes
- What's the highest dollar price will Bitcoin reach in 2024? Posted on February 28th, 2024 | 8470 votes
- Will ByteDance be forced to divest TikTok Posted on March 20th, 2024 | 6318 votes
Most Comments
- What's the highest dollar price will Bitcoin reach in 2024? Posted on March 20th, 2024 | 68 comments
- Will ByteDance be forced to divest TikTok Posted on March 20th, 2024 | 20 comments
Re:Sweden (Score:4, Insightful)
Sweden has some fairly high-density population centers and a lot less suburbia, from what I saw on the train from the airport. I am willing to pay a fairly high price for genuinely unlimited data, or even a large amount of data that's not restricted, but if I can't do VOIP, then the value drops substantially.
Re:Sweden (Score:2, Insightful)
In actual transmission costs the data is cheap, but operators put many billions per year into infrastructure upgrades, license costs and the like, so it's not like selling wireless data is free money for the operator.
But yes, it's a profitable business.
It depends if unlimited means unlimited (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Sweden (Score:5, Insightful)
For each GB you download, you pay a few cents for the actual infrastructure (for the data transfer), and a lot more for marketing, and the big offices that they need, and the fancy shops in downtown main shopping streets, and... did I mention marketing? Marketing is a big one.
Poorly defined question (Score:5, Insightful)
The data cap shouldn't determine the cost - the speed and QOS should.
Re:I get that for 20 Euro right now. Soon 10. (Score:0, Insightful)
Most of Europe already has LTE, and has had it years before any US company even looked at upgrading their towers. That "jerkwater shantytown" likely has a far better transportation system and infrastructure than most US core cities.
Re:Ask The Invisible Hand! (Score:4, Insightful)
After all, market forces are surely keeping prices as low as possible!
What market forces? Wireless data is anything but a free market.
Re:Ask The Invisible Hand! (Score:4, Insightful)
In the end, there is no true market in the US.
No tethering charge (Score:5, Insightful)