On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Tony Havelka wrote: > Pay per MB plans are just bad news. It depends how much your time is worth, and this is by far the cheapest per MB plan ever offered. Voicestream was recently charging $4/MB for GPRS. These plans are only $1/MB for 120MB/month which provides 4MB per day, or 5MB for 5-day-a-week access (more likely than 7-day-a-week). (1) Most people are not going to use this as their main internet access. There are far faster and zero cost 802.11b portals all over. Most college students won't have a problem finding 802.11b portals around campus. So this is just for emergencies. (2) When its an emergency, the data is worth more. If you're doing field consulting (something likely at least 90% of the people on this list are competent enough to do and could easily find employment in) and your client is paying you $50/hour, you can afford to spend a buck or two on wireless internet access while on the clock. It's a cost of doing business, the customer benefits, and it's sensible from both your and his points of view to pass the cost on to him. $1/MB high-speed mobile data allows you to provide greater value. It helps you. It helps the economy. Everyone benefits when you make sensible business expenditures. Everyone loses when you act the radical spendthrift. > The all you can eat plans make more sense from a user and supplier > point of view. (1) Spending your own and your client's time to save a few pennies never makes sense. It's penny wise and pound foolish. You'll lose clients, and deservedly so. (2) It would take an hour to transfer 5MB (your aforementioned daily ration before you start paying by the MB with the pay-per plans) with all-you-can-eat CDPD. This transfer would have to be continuous to fit it in only an hour. Has anyone, anywhere ever transferred 5MB _in a whole day_ with CDPD? > In practice, nobody wants to pay for all the spam they have to d/l in > their email or for that large attachment that was sent to you by > mistake. You get 5MB of spam every single day? Perhaps your ISP should consider adopting spamassassin: http://spamassassin.taint.org/ -Chris -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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