| bannedagain said: Comcast started charging, then AT&T. so what is that showing? Following suit. So if one gets away with lowering it, the other will. Just like the mandatory internet fee's on phones. You have to have a internet plan now of days, even if you never use it. So that show that everone follows suit. Free market is f'ed and rules and regulations have been stripped down to nothing allowing for corperate scum to get away with murder, on there workers, the ecconomy and then not paying any taxes. |
No one is forcing you to buy the phone itself and the reason they force a data package on you is because they're SUBSIDIZING THE PHONE. The only way the carrier recoups that money is from that data plan you hate so much.
Don't like it? Go buy an unlocked phone for $600 and take it to your carrier du jour. Problem solved.
Companies are capping users because 1% of the population is using over 20% of the bandwidth. If the companies get greedy and drop that limit to, say, 100GB and impact enough users to piss them off, those users will bail to another company that doesn't offer capped internet usage. You're not really thinking this through very thoroughly.
The only people I see complaining about this are the people who steal every fucking thing they can find on the Internet. That is pretty much the ONLY way a 250GB cap is going to affect you. You're using far more service than the average user for the same amount of money. What gives you the right to abuse the system and slow down everyone else without having to pay more?
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