amungus
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join:2004-11-26
America
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if you're spending that much time downloading on your phone you have no life... 
I don't know that I download that much in a month anyway, let alone if I had a telephone to do it with.
Agree though that "unlimited" ought to mean just that, and if there is a limit, it should be clearly stated in the terms. Should one exceed (clearly stated!) said limit, it should also be clear how much you'll be charged (per 100MB??) just like the minutes on one's plan... |
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itguy05
join:2005-06-17
Camp Hill, PA
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if you're spending that much time downloading on your phone you have no life...
I don't know that I download that much in a month anyway, let alone if I had a telephone to do it with.
Then you don't have a smartphone. I have my Treo set to get mail every 30 mins, and some light web surfing, and I'm blowing through about 7-8MB a day (210MB in 30 days) and that's not counting hitting a web site with a lot of graphics.
And this is over Cingular's slower EDGE network - I'd imagine a faster network would have me using it a little more.
Thank God Cingular doesn't have these "caps". |
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cdru
Go Colts
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN | So you are trying to demonstrate how downloading 210MB a month with a smartphone somehome equates to others downloading 10GB, a 50x increase?
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Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? |
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itguy05
join:2005-06-17
Camp Hill, PA | The person I replied to was replying to the individual who was discussing the 250MB cap of their provider. I was explaining how 250MB is not an unreasonable amount in a month. |
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amungus
Premium
join:2004-11-26
America
clubs:
| actually I was just talking about the 10GB...
not the 250MB, which is not unreasonable.
...I was only saying that someone using up 10GB through a phone should have better things to do... like use their phone for talking, or enjoying life etc...
no, don't have a smartphone, and I don't know if it'd even be possible with current ones to effectively use 10GB worth of data... let alone worthwhile...
what you use yours for seems quite reasonable, and of course if it were faster with higher cap one would want to use it more!!!
If I had one, I would love to somehow put Rhapsody on the thing and I would certainly use up way more than 250MB/month!!! ...Rhapsody everywhere... would be bliss.
The thing I'm talking about is hooking one up to a laptop, for raw internet access etc. Unless there's a real need for it, I think it'd be a bit difficult to use that much in a month IMHO since I personally don't know if I even use that much out of a cable broadband connection... hence I see the cap as somewhat reasonable ..IF.. it is clearly stated and the overages wouldn't totally suck (of course, they would, just like going over minutes.)
If you were travelling a lot, using VPN, downloading movies, music, games, etc I guess it's entirely possible to use up more than 10GB... esp. if they count that up AND down, for a total useage....which they likely do. |
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