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When I was in 5th grade I racked up 500$ in fees because I went over my data limit on my flip phone by a lot using a mobile dating site thing. And then when I vacationed to Maine and didn't have any internet for almost a week I got about 200$ in fees because I went over my limit, which was actually a large amount since I had a smartphone for once.
 
I get 3GB a month and unlimited texting for $50. The 3GB is high speed though, and I'm unlimited otherwise but it's so dreadfully slow after 3 is breached that there's no point.
 
I'm on a PAYG sim right now that allows you to add 'bundles' for extra text/internet. There's one where you can get 6 months of unlimited internet for just £20. ;D Hard to believe such thing exists but it's great for me as I go on the internet frequently.
 
Dter ic said:
I'm on a PAYG sim right now that allows you to add 'bundles' for extra text/internet. There's one where you can get 6 months of unlimited internet for just £20. ;D Hard to believe such thing exists but it's great for me as I go on the internet frequently.
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If only that existed in US. Maybe it does, and I probably haven't looked hard enough. Either way, it does sound great, though!
 
You know, since data caps are a complete load of crap to begin with, I often wondered why they were implemented at all; obviously there is some motive of profit behind it withstanding the fact that it costs them no more or less for you to download 500MB or 500GB of data. Maybe the fact that they throttle your bandwidth (something that does cost money) after the cap enables them to cheat you out of bandwidth that's normally covered by your plan pricing. It's basically profit by freeing up bandwidth that they're able to cover anyway but don't through throttling, for… damn, why? If they can cover their network sufficiently anyway what's the purpose of cheating bandwidth to begin with? This is so confusing…

Edit: Maybe it's a way of compensating for lackluster networking systems. That would make sense in respect to the bottom line, right?
 
Alex said:
You know, since data caps are a complete load of crap to begin with, I often wondered why they were implemented at all; obviously there is some motive of profit behind it withstanding the fact that it costs them no more or less for you to download 500MB or 500GB of data. Maybe the fact that they throttle your bandwidth (something that does cost money) after the cap enables them to cheat you out of bandwidth that's normally covered by your plan pricing. It's basically profit by freeing up bandwidth that they're able to cover anyway but don't through throttling, for… damn, why? If they can cover their network sufficiently anyway what's the purpose of cheating bandwidth to begin with? This is so confusing…

Edit: Maybe it's a way of compensating for lackluster networking systems. That would make sense in respect to the bottom line, right?
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When I first got a cell, there were no data caps; it was just unlimited Internet browsing for x$.

The bandwidth thing is horrible. 1GB over here is 10-20$ depending on your plan. 1GB added to an existing plan is 20$, as well as for PAYG. It's total robbery.

Telus tried to charge a friend of mine a few years back 4,000$ in data overage. He used about 200GB on his phone that month, and they decided that was worth 4,000$. As soon as he said he'd take it to the media, though, they got rid of the charge. It's ludicrous. I read that if a company cannot justify the charge by their own reasonably calculated expenses that it invalidates the charge, too, as to prevent these types of occurences.
 
I think I have unlimited because my Dads work contract has both of our lines on it. I know I've watched entire series of Netflix shows on my phone when I'm visiting family (I would at school but I'm home-schooled.)
 
It's because they can make money off of it. There doesn't have to be some technical reason behind it. It's just because they discovered that people will still buy their product even if they have a limit, and people will pay more every month to make sure they don't go over (my family has 10GB and never uses more than 5 every month).

Even unlimited plans throttle bandwidth though, which is why they are nice for the feeling of no limit as long as you don't use TOO much.
 
Belldandy said:
When I first got a cell, there were no data caps; it was just unlimited Internet browsing for x$.

The bandwidth thing is horrible. 1GB over here is 10-20$ depending on your plan. 1GB added to an existing plan is 20$, as well as for PAYG. It's total robbery.

Telus tried to charge a friend of mine a few years back 4,000$ in data overage. He used about 200GB on his phone that month, and they decided that was worth 4,000$. As soon as he said he'd take it to the media, though, they got rid of the charge. It's ludicrous. I read that if a company cannot justify the charge by their own reasonably calculated expenses that it invalidates the charge, too, as to prevent these types of occurences.
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There's a common misconception I've run into: Bandwidth is speed, not amount. Let's say you have some motherboard or router interface. It can handle X gigabits per second. That's it's bandwidth; because with larger networks such as the mobile ones used by the popular PSPs, you have a lot more devices on a larger network inherently using more bandwidth. So where does this data cap thing come in? It doesn't. The data cap is an imaginary network safeguard that the technologically illiterate will naturally (and reasonably) assume as such. It's a method of maximizing profit from people because they don't know the terminology, and often in plan pricings and such (cheapie web hosts will do this too) they'll label their datacap as "bandwidth" which it really isn't. Very confusing it is, and I hope that clears some things up, along with my above post.

Also with that Telus anecdote I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some IT pro resigned out of disgust for that. lmao
 
My phone thingy provider called me the other day and tried to sell me another deal. They told me I have 1GB of internet in my current deal, but I usually spend 1.4GB each month. I told them, oh well, I'll have to listen to spotify in offline mode then :D Premium and saving playlists to phone when on wifi, yeeah.
 
AT&T keeps calling me to tell me I have an upgrade, but it's not really in my funds to get a new phone just yet
 
I have an upgrade I'm hanging onto until maybe september to see if there are any drops in the phone I want
 
I like my sprint service but their data restrictions and what not should be more specific because apparently I have unlimited data as Long as I'm in a sprint area and the manager at the store couldn't even explain it! Lol
 
I wanted to get an iPhone 5 but I was too cheap... And now it's getting old so I might just hold on to my battered iPhone 4 (not s) until iPhone 6 arrives, right? :DD
 
I have the worst luck with phones, I swear. when I moved to smartphones I had like 4 in two years time. Ugh. Now that I got a new battery for my current one, it seems to be fine though
 
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I have the worst luck with phones, I swear. when I moved to smartphones I had like 4 in two years time. Ugh. Now that I got a new battery for my current one, it seems to be fine though
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I was like that before I got an iPhone. Then suddenly it just kept working for years :D I've had it for 3 years now I think. Weird, are they even supposed to live for this long? Quality right there.

Also Ponyta I think you just became mine and Brendino's mascot, idk
 
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