On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:38:15PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Tony Havelka wrote: > > > >>Pay per MB plans are just bad news. > > > > I agree. Any version of "well, most people will never ever need > more than X mb anyway so who cares" is historically likely to be > dead wrong. I mean, I would hope the goal is to get us all > wired fully, all the time, everywhere, fixed and mobile. Plans > like this are just attempts to nickel and dime us to death every > step of the way imho. Such "solutions" stand in the way of many > of our fondest dreams and, more importantly, in the way of human > technological progress generally. On the other hand, the start-up cost for a large-scale phone network is on the order of tens of millions of dollars. I suppose they could just have the first guy to connect foot the bill... -- Adam Haberlach | "You live and learn| or you don't live long." http://newsnipple.com | -- Robert Heinlein | -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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