I'm up for an upgrade in August and I'm thinking of going for the Galaxy S 2 variant on Verizon.
Between monitoring who is rooted by seeing if people take updates
to the tether crackdown (instead of cracking down on people abusing the unlimited data)
to tiered data
This is a measurable service that costs money on a per-unit basis, no different from electricity or gasoline or water.
Except you're not destroying bits by using them. Bits are manufactured and are limited only by the infrastructure in place to support them. They are absolutely renewable in the utmost sense. One could go so far as to say not using all of the available bandwidth all of the time is a waste of network potential. Hence, it is not anything like electricity, gasoline, or water.
Transmitting data over the infrastructure costs money. It is a measurable service, and it costs actual money to Verizon to transfer data over the towers. Are you nitpicking just to be pedantic or do you have an actual argument that it somehow doesn't cost real dollars to transfer data? Every single bit of data transferred has a value attached to it.
but I notice you didn't bring up gasoline or electricity again.
The costs to Verizon are in the hardware, the electricity it takes to power the hardware, and then the wholesale bandwidth costs to them.
They own a lot of internet backbone, so maybe they don't incur bandwidth costs at all, except for the initial investment.
The idea that all of a sudden there's a dire need for tiered or pay-per-byte data is a strawman
A very beneficial and thoughful discussion about data plans, but I don't think it was what the OP was looking for. The question was realy directed to what phone are folks going to upgrade to on Verizon.
I won't be eligible for an upgrade discount until March 2012, and I have no idea what phones will be out by then. Even still, I am very happy with my phone and won't be ready to move on for a while.
How is it that so many people are going to be ready for upgrades this year? One year contracts?
I upgraded last May (2 yr. contract), and I'm eligible for an early upgrade at the end of the month for some reason.
I upgraded last May (2 yr. contract), and I'm eligible for an early upgrade at the end of the month for some reason.
Between monitoring who is rooted by seeing if people take updates,
what company doesn't do this? does AT&T allow free tethering? Sprint? T-Mo?...no, none of them do...to the tether crackdown
huh? what is there to crack down on?...if you pay for unlimited data...how can you abuse it?...(instead of cracking down on people abusing the unlimited data),
everyone except Sprint has tiered data...and its truly the way to go...to tiered data...it's just going to get worse.
So I'm headed to an Evo3D on Sprint.
Voice/Data Usage Limitation: Sprint reserves the right, without notice, to limit throughput speeds, and to deny, terminate, modify, disconnect or suspend service if off-network usage in a month exceeds: (1) voice: 800 min. or a majority of minutes; or (2) data: 300 megabytes or a majority of kilobytes. Prohibited network use rules apply. See in-store materials or sprint.com/termsandconditions for specific prohibited uses.
just a couple of the tidbits stuffed away in their TOS/EULA...Except with Phone-as-Modem plans, you may not use a phone (including a Bluetooth phone) as a modem in connection with a computer, PDA, or similar device. We reserve the right to deny or terminate service without notice for any misuse or any use that adversely affects network performance.
An oversite, or just luck maybe I singed a 2 year contract last July and I won't be eligible until March 2012.
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