Comments on: Variable Pricing Coming to Mobile Broadband?

By: AT&T Explains Its Pricing Change: It’s All About Value

AT&T Explains Its Pricing Change: It’s All About Value — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:39:29 +0000

[...] Why go with tiers as opposed to congestion pricing and why only two [...]

By: Duane

Duane — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:51:34 +0000

As it stands today, Clear/Sprint is the only provider that is offering truly unlimited mobile broadband plans. They’re also the only nationwide deployment of 4th-gen technology (wimax).

http://www.unlimitedmobilebroadbandplans.com/

As more providers bring their new network online later this year, we’ll see how the pricing model pans out. Let’s hope it’s back to unlimited!

By: Mobile World Congress: Don’t Call It a Phone Show – GigaOM

Mobile World Congress: Don’t Call It a Phone Show – GigaOM — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:58:31 +0000

[...] it’s not going to be the star — policy management is. For normal people this means that pricing for your mobile bits is going to change. Carriers will have the tools from Bridgewater Systems, Sandvine, Camiant and others to parse your [...]

By: YouTube Will Kill Flat-rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever

YouTube Will Kill Flat-rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:31:34 +0000

[...] mobile operators to rethink their pricing plans (GigaOM Pro, sub. req’d). In short, YouTube may be the death of unlimited mobile broadband on handsets. Continue reading on [...]

By: YouTube Will Kill Flat-rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever – GigaOM

YouTube Will Kill Flat-rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever – GigaOM — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:45:52 +0000

[...] mobile operators to rethink their pricing plans (GigaOM Pro, sub. req’d). In short, YouTube may be the death of unlimited mobile broadband on [...]

By: Dynamic Pricing Comes to Amazon’s Cloud – GigaOM

Dynamic Pricing Comes to Amazon’s Cloud – GigaOM — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:13:45 +0000

[...] this type of dynamic pricing will be seen more and more often. In addition to the cloud, mobile operators are eying dynamic pricing models, as are utilities as they implement smart grids. Fixed price may soon become a quaint anachronism, [...]

By: Simon Grant

Simon Grant — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:53:53 +0000

Personally as a user would rather pay a fixed fee without having to think about how much I am paying depending on the time of day. I think people just want a consistent speed and the one they were told they would get.

By: It’s Captastic! Cable One Embraces Congestion Pricing

It’s Captastic! Cable One Embraces Congestion Pricing — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:10:33 +0000

[...] around with congestion pricing, offering certain services or speeds based on the time of day, and most in the wireless industry think congestion pricing is the way to go, but it’s still relatively rare. BT recently got in trouble with subscribers for slowing its [...]

By: Heart of the Matter - Bytemobile Blog » Blog Archive » Variable Pricing Plans for Mobile Data Services

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:13:23 +0000

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By: Bill Webb

Bill Webb — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:47:53 +0000

The first commenter said it: affordable data plans. I have a family plan with five phones. I can’t begin to afford ATT’s unlimited plan, even at the group rate, so we get by with SMS and Multimedia.

ATT could sell 5 data phones and have 5 satisfied customers, right now today, if they had affordable data. As it is, I’m running the contract out and switching to Verizon. Why deal with #2 when there’s no advantage…and their 3G service ain’t that great either.

By: Downturn or Not, Mobile Broadband Is Growing Fast « Online Buissnes

Downturn or Not, Mobile Broadband Is Growing Fast « Online Buissnes — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:35:12 +0000

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By: Downturn or Not, Mobile Broadband Is Growing Fast

Downturn or Not, Mobile Broadband Is Growing Fast — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:02:57 +0000

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Saturday Evening Links - | remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:52:28 +0000

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By: Robert A. Rosenberg

Robert A. Rosenberg — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:01:15 +0000

Backhaul is from the Tower to the company’s network. Even if the connection is between two users on your network (not a user and another who is on the Internet) you still need the backhaul from the Tower to get on your network (think of it as going down your driveway to get to the street). Thus P2P between users on your network still needs to use the backhaul. What it bypasses is the usage of the connection between you and the peering point needed to connect to the Internet.

By: R Denis

R Denis — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:49:17 +0000

Does tom mean

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Learn to spell man

By: tom

tom — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:00:28 +0000

two major issues with wireless broadband right now are not enough backhaul to the greater internet and download usage that well exceed uploads. therefore it would make great sense for the operators to offer super low prices for applications on there network that are strictly peer2peer between two device on their networks. for example video calling or file transfer between two of their customers could be priced lower than regular web surfing or email that use lots of backhaul to the greater internet and is lopsided with downlinks far exceeding uplinks.