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Re: read both Google Phone "NORMAL" Data Users May be Throttled
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:20:56 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <bob.frankston () gmail com> Date: October 4, 2008 2:19:13 PM EDT To: <dave () farber net>, "'ip'" <ip () v2 listbox com>Cc: "'Joel M Snyder'" <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM>, "Lauren Weinstein" <lauren () vortex com > Subject: RE: [IP] Re: Google Phone "NORMAL" Data Users May be Throttled
A primary use of my 3G phone is to connect my computer to the world. This is
a big selling point. 1GB for that application is not very much at all. Another use is to watch video relayed via SlingBox or some other source.This is why is it so very very important not to accept limitations because of one's failure of imagination. At least in this case I don't have to try
too hard to find reasonable users. Remember also that even if it is .1% that .1% is where the future valuecomes from so prevent it at your peril. And worry very much that with money tight not just the leading .1% but the leading 10% will be starved and we'll
deny ourselves escape from Malthusian scarcity. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 12:28 To: ip Subject: [IP] Re: Google Phone "Heavy" Data Users May be Throttled Begin forwarded message: From: Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM> Date: October 4, 2008 11:33:33 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Google Phone "Heavy" Data Users May be Throttled Well, everyone's use of their iPhone is personal to them, but I find it hard to imagine how one would use 1Gb of data on the thing. My usage has ranged from 40Mb/month to 85Mb/month and I consider myself a very heavy user when traveling, which I do all the time. I suppose I could non-stop stream videos even when I'm not watching them, but the combination of mediocre battery life in the iPhone and a limit on how much data I can consume through its small display seems to make 1Gb a limit that I would have a difficult time reaching. As with the cable modem 'caps' being discussed, this sounds like one of those 1/100th of 1% issues. Since I'd rather NOT be subsidizing Shapiro's usage, I cannot object to me paying $30 for my up-to-1Gb of data and having him pay more. (Note: I'm just saying "Shapiro" here as an example; I don't know him other than "a guy who wrote into IP complaining about the 1Gb throttle.") Yes, we have been promised unlimited usage and no time limits on our Internet since the hyper-competitive dial-in market was created, but it is clear to anyone who studies the industry that there is a marginal cost for bandwidth. Anyone who doubts that is welcome to examine the invoices from our upstream ISP. Arguments I've heard regarding cable modem usage about congestion being the real issue are accurate. It's actually not congestion; it's peak usage, whether that causes congestion or not, because somewhere it's all being aggregated up where congestion does occur; but the argument is approximately close enough to reality that I can agree with it. HOWEVER, iPhone usage does tend to require a person sitting in front of the phone for any significant bandwidth usage. Would it be even MORE fair to have a special "Insomniac's Data Plan" to cover that 1% of the 1/100 of 1% of high bandwidth users who use up their bits when no one else is awake? Yes, probably, but it would be cheaper for those 9 people to rant and rave about how unfair it is than to have 9 million iPhone users [I made this number up] pay the price for time- based bandwidth accounting. jms David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap () eros-os com> Date: October 3, 2008 11:27:53 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Google Phone "Heavy" Data Users May be Throttled On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 03:10 -0400, David Farber wrote:"If your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less.This is particularly irritating to those of us T-mobile customers who are *already* on unlimited GPRS data plans, and are being forced to a more expensive and more limited plan when we switch to the new handset; even though we don't live or work anywhere that 3G services are offered. So if this is enforced my service is simply getting worse and more expensive... shap ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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