Euro Operators Want Apple, Facebook, Google to Pay Up
make the internet pay for people to use it?
Wait... what?
Don't they have customers and a pricing structure along with rate plans that are adjusted based on what the customer wants?
If the customer uses a lot of bandwidth, he/she should pay for it accordingly. NOT the websites the customer chooses to visit or the hardware he chooses to visit the site on.
And where would you ever draw the line????
If someone from Europe visits my website on their mobile device would I be forced to pay their service providers money to build out their network????
Don't they have customers and a pricing structure along with rate plans that are adjusted based on what the customer wants?
If the customer uses a lot of bandwidth, he/she should pay for it accordingly. NOT the websites the customer chooses to visit or the hardware he chooses to visit the site on.
And where would you ever draw the line????
If someone from Europe visits my website on their mobile device would I be forced to pay their service providers money to build out their network????
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justfinethanku said:
Wait... what?
Don't they have customers and a pricing structure along with rate plans that are adjusted based on what the customer wants?
If the customer uses a lot of bandwidth, he/she should pay for it accordingly. NOT the websites the customer chooses to visit or the hardware he chooses to visit the site on.
And where would you ever draw the line????
If someone from Europe visits my website on their mobile device would I be forced to pay their service providers money to build out their network????
Just like wireless networks in the United States, the answer is TIERED DATA PRICING, or at least non-tiered pay-for-use pricing.
However, in a society where all-you-can-...
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Whatever happened to the business phrase "meet customer demand"??? If customers require more data, the wireless companies should find a technology that will provide the *amount* of data at the *speeds* customers *require*.
So I ask again, whatever happened to that business phrase "meet customer demand"???
So I ask again, whatever happened to that business phrase "meet customer demand"???
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Jayshmay said:
Whatever happened to the business phrase "meet customer demand"??? If customers require more data, the wireless companies should find a technology that will provide the *amount* of data at the *speeds* customers *require*.
Yeah, and if customers require more gasoline, then oil companies should find a technology that will provide the *amount* of oil at the *prices* customers *require*.
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Nope, Jayshmay, your aphorism applies only to markets in which supply can actually meet demand. That is not true of the wireless data market. In fact, wireless spectrum, while reusable, is an even more finite resource than is oil.
AJ
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if the providers think they can keep their old technology and handle new demands, they are wrong. sprint is spending billions on upgrading their stuff to wimax because thats the way the market is going, more and more data usage. im sure companies had to alter their towers/technology when texting became more and more popular.
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And hopefully 10-12 months from now we will see headlines on Phone Scoop of Sprint beginning deployments of WiMax Release 2!!! To keep up with *demand*!!!
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Sprint is definitely in a great position(spectrum wise) to handle Today's and future Data consumption. To continue building their network to utilize this spectrum however, is far more intricate and costly. If people would realize the great position Sprint is in for delivering the future, Sprint would have a much better cash flow to offset this cost by attracting these people to their network.
John B.
John B.
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During a recent South by Southwest conference in Texas I read that AT&T uses 30mhz of spectrum to make sure everything was smooth. So there is spectrum, just carriers are hording it.
Martin Cooper (the inventor of the cellphone) said tere is plenty of spectrum, he said technology needs to be more efficient.
That's what LTE & LTE-Advanced will do.
Martin Cooper (the inventor of the cellphone) said tere is plenty of spectrum, he said technology needs to be more efficient.
That's what LTE & LTE-Advanced will do.
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You can't make the same amount for cheaper, but you can make the car use it more effeciently (example: Hybrid car, or cars with better gas mileage)
The existing usable spectrum can be used more effectively, and considering the infancy of wireless technology it will.
If you can do something someone else out there can do it better and cheaper, this is free market 101 stuff.
The existing usable spectrum can be used more effectively, and considering the infancy of wireless technology it will.
If you can do something someone else out there can do it better and cheaper, this is free market 101 stuff.
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I would "Like" your post but I'm afraid my ISP will send a bill to Phonescoop for it.
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