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Originally Posted by yankees45us
That's probably true. The data plans on 3g will probably go to tiered plans so as to force people who want unlimited to get 4g and pay the premium charge. That shouldn't be too bad I guess. It will just suck if they made 4g a tiered service.
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Thats actually a pretty good strategy, makes a lot of sense. Good old fashion bait and switch.
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Originally Posted by MrDSL
So people who bought a service as UNLIMITED and they actually use it as that are 'abusers'?
Interesting!!
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I agree with you but Chris has some good points too with the whole buffet line example. Promotions and plans are always subject to change. As of right now sprint advertises unlimited and thats what we are getting but if the average data usage triples or quadriples then that will force any business to rethink their strategy. Like the buffet line example, lets say customers been averaging 3 plates per visit and now they are averaging 6 plates per visit, the costs have now doubled but I am still charging the same price. Any business will change rethink their strategy after that. Its like the autobahn in germany, even though there isn't a speed limit that doesn't mean you can drive with reckless abandon which could affect other people around you just trying to make it home.
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Originally Posted by chris1683
I think it is really a double edged sword here with Sprint.
Point one:
I think what some people are getting at here is that let's say you go to an "all you can eat" buffet and you sit down to eat. The restaurant is assuming that the average person will eat 2-3 plates of food. Then an unaverage person walks in and eats 25 plates of food. Now the people who wanted a plate or two can't get it because there is none left because the hog before them took it all. Now think of it in terms of bandwith.
Point two:
Sprint clearly advertised the Evo as able to be the sole internet "Hotspot" for any wireless device in your house which wants to use internet. Granted you pay a hefty 30.00/month for this service but then what? Is Sprint saying that the plan, plus the 10.00 surcharge, plus the 30.00 add on is not enough for them? For those on the Simply Everything Plan that is $139.00 before taxes.
Point three:
Yes, Sprint is the first to offer 4G. I, like many other do no live in a 4G area for me, paying 10.00 per month gets me nothing extra than what I had with my TP2 but we will not get into that topic here. If Sprint wants to charge more for their "premium data" with our Evo's and Epic's then we should automatically have NO cap if they decided to invoke a data cap.
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A business is a business and people always need to remember that their ultimate goal is so make money and not to make you happy. If Sprint wants to roll the dice and start sticking it to all of their customers with more and more fees or caps, then they relinquish anything that made them "special" or "better" than their competitors making it more enticing for customers to switch to other carriers. Let's remember that before the Evo came out, Sprint's big hype phones were the Touch Pro II and the Palm Pre. Not too exciting when other carriers were miles ahead. I think they have gotten a little too head strong since releasing the Evo.
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Excellent post, I don't think I could have said any better myself.