Originally Posted by fivestargentleman (Post 1954588)

Yep!!

Originally Posted by yankees45us (Post 1953336)

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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Originally Posted by MrDSL (Post 1953449)

So people who bought a service as UNLIMITED and they actually use it as that are 'abusers'?

Interesting!!

Originally Posted by chris1683 (Post 1953462)

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.

Point four:
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.

Originally Posted by themuffinman (Post 1954874)

Thats actually a pretty good strategy, makes a lot of sense. Good old fashion bait and switch.



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.



Excellent post, I don't think I could have said any better myself.

Originally Posted by MrDSL (Post 1954970)

I don't sign a 2 year contract to eat at a unlimited buffet that says I get unlimited plates of food though.

The Germany analogy is flawed. You can drive whatever speed limit be it 180 or 100 they don't pull you over saying you're going to fast and someone driving crazy endangering other peoples lives isn't even in the same ballpark as using a crap load of data unless using too much data could kill someone.

Sprint should have thought about that before they advertised the phone sharing up to 8 devices at a airport to random people.

I dunno I mean I don't use much data so ill be fine either way as long as I can leave if they change it since that's not what I signed up for.

Originally Posted by austin420 (Post 1955141)

looks like verizon will introduce tiered data before sprint will.
this is from the wall street journal.
Verizon to Change Mobile-Data Plans - WSJ.com

Originally Posted by LoungeLizard (Post 1954532)

Why? They applied the new Corporate Discount policy to existing plans without "grandfathering" anybody in. I wouldn't count on not getting hit with the cap if you are an existing customer.

As far as the cap goes, I think it stinks for us who pay for "premium data". But on the other hand, we have people right here in another thread about this who admit to using 250-300 gb a month. Those are the people who need a cap, or at least common sense. It's a phone.

Originally Posted by yankees45us (Post 1957431)

Agree 100%. These people with more than 15gb data usage are going to force sprint to switch to tiered data.

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