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Friday, January 07, 2011

The Real Cost of 4G

My sentiment exactly. I think providers are UNETHICAL in not providing their clients with a simple tool to manage their account. It isn't enough to simply report it. Not everyone can afford to pay a $200 surprise on their statement. Something like T mobile that only allows text if you reach your volume limit for the month seems reasonable. Steve 
...let’s say you’re traveling on a business trip at the end of the month, you’re at your hotel room, and you turn on wireless access point functionality on your new Droid LTE-whatever. You want to watch a Netflix movie or download it/stream it from iTunes on your iPad 2 that’s tethering to it via Wi-Fi or has LTE built-in. “Oh look, they have TRON Legacy in HD!”. It’s only 2.5GB.If you download or stream that, and you were 200MB short of your 5GB on the 29th of the month, you just ate a 3GB overage. Assuming that Verizon charges similar plan rates for their smartphones as they currently do for their LTE Aircards, that $5 iTunes movie rental just cost you $35.CES: The Real Cost of 4G | ZDNet