AT&T CFO Sees Tiered Pricing Future for Carriers
Going to hold onto my unlimited plan for dear life.
Unfortunatly they will probably come up with some way to yank the choice out of my hands.
Their only handicap is they have to let you out of your contract with no fees- a small price to pay for dumping a customer who uses $200 in bandwidth every month and only pays $29.99 for their service plan!
You can bet your hat that AT&T and any other carrier that moves to tiered data pricing will put a "change plans or leave" letter in the mailbox to all the excessive users on the network.
Light users SHOULD pay less then heavy users, just like almost every other non-internet industry on earth.
if companies made just those users pay for what they are using or say bubbye that would make things more affordable.
Versed said:
Better off building up your network to handle data than to bitch about not being able to handle it.
Even BETTER, charge the heavy data users more $$$, so you have more revenue to build the network up...
As for deciding who is the heavy user and who is the light user, as long as the defining point is based on MB consumed and not something ridiculous like what type of device you own, it doesn't really matter where the tier points are set. They just need to be priced consistently per MB across the board for all users on all devices.
Netbooks, iPhones, BlackBerries and USB modems should all have exactly the same dat apricing scale available to them
I see many people paying for much higher data packs than they would need, just for security. It won't be long before we're right back to offering 'true' unlimited plans again, after gouging for overages for several years.
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