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Originally Posted by testacon
Your service is changing though, your total monthly data RX is going to skyrocket--even at 3G speeds. It seems that everything around this phone is going to be data intensive. Why wouldn't Sprint charge you more for overages? I don't know what the data RX the average person uses for the life of their phone but I have a Mogul that's about 18 months old and has over 6GB on it that's about 350 MB a month average. Now I get an EVO and my data RX shoots to 1GB a month, that's 18GB in 18 months--12 additional GB. That's a lot of bandwidth used, if Sprint wants to charge more now so that it can keep up with the technology we should let them. My understanding of the purpose of this fee is to uncap any excessive data usage that WILL come with this phone. I'm not thrilled with it either but I accept it.
It's time to piss or get off the pot people. Sprint is trying to prepare it's network for a boatload of data, let them cut corners now and we will soon find out how the iPhone people feel in New York and other densely areas when their 3G speed is cut so bad by overpopulation that they get 300 Baud on their iPhones.
Bottom line is this, as long as the technology works as promised, then the fee is justified. If we start sharing problems that AT&T has with overpopulation then this $10 fee starts to become a problem with overbilling for useless services.
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that's a little out of proportion. as someone already said just because it runs faster doesnt mean you'll consume more data. and for users switching from winmo to android you will use more data but thats just because its android. now unless you're tethering and burning through insane amounts of data the amount of data usage on the evo will probably be the same as what its been on the Moment and Hero, with the same usage patterns for me on Windows Mobile i went through about 350MB/month, WebOS it went up to about 500MB/month and when i had the Hero it went to about 700MB/month and guess what, since I went back to Windows Mobile, I'm at about 350 again. go figure.
so like i said, unless people start going out of their way to tether with the Evo (which is what the $29.99 hotspot is for) you can't say its going to eat through so much more data that it justifies an extra charge. so why should i have to pay extra when i'm probably going to use the same amount of data as i did on the hero, like the majority of people probably will