Comment Luxury? (Score 1) 75
Well, let me start by saying that I don't believe that the vast majority of data usage falls under anything other than personal entertainment, the big problem I'm seeing with comparing this to Uber is that Uber is fairly unambiguously a luxury. It is offered as an alternative to taxi's ( another luxury ) or walking/public transportation, which not subject to their business model. By making "surge pricing" you are not making it easier for people who aren't using it for entertainment to use it - you are making everything more expensive, and consequently harder to use.
If data/network usage starting having surge pricing, there is no reasonable alternative - you are essential making a device useless if you can not afford to pay "luxury" rates for a service, on top of the already significant costs of being able to use this service at all.
So, I think this comes more down to, do we classify all data usage as a luxury, or not?