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Re: Sprint PCS Rolls Out 3G

From: Adam Haberlach <>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:38:47 -0700

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...

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