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AT&T CEO Believes 5G Phone Plans Could Be Tiered and Priced on Data Speed
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What part of the state are you in? I get great LTE on TMo all over the seacoast.
Say what???
I have a lousy ADSL where there's no data cap, and a family plan for the phones (12GB shared data per month). For this, we pay about $70-80 and month, and that even includes a landline we never use. As soon as the fiber installation is done, I expect to lower my costs a little bit but not much.
Our electrical bill though is on a completely different scale. It's less in the summer, but more in the winter, of course, but averaged out, it's in the region of $4-500.
OnTopic: I see no reson to not go this way with pricing. I have zero interest in "5G speeds". Heck, I mostly get low-end LTE speeds where I live and I've never suffered. If @home, 10MBit ADSL, if @work, at least 500MBit wifi, it's more down to how close one are to a station, max speed is about 867MBit.
I'd rather lower my costs a bit by capping my speed. Who needs gigabit speed on their phone???
Tbh I enjoy s wing the att 5ge icon it lets me know att will be dropping my signal shortly. It’s like a warning sign..
the fact of the matter is, that “business” use cases are even less plausible - and there is a heck of lot pipe-dreaming going on in this area.
i’m not saying that 5GNR is bad, i’m just saying that the do called use cases cases are totally fake, and in most cases depicting a target industry segment like one from the age of the english industrial revolution. it doesn’t take more than a few minutes of analysis to reveal the superfluousness of the ever repeated 3 big deals, or the total
miscommunication of the reduced latency (on the air interface) - and all of this has been utterly distorted by the nowadays media, where a bunch of bozos are happy to cover ideas of an upside down skyscraper that is hanging down from a semi-geostationary asteroid.
As long as there are no consumer protections being enforced by the federal government, expect more of this.
Not sure what you’re talking about...
Guidance on 4K streaming is that you need approximately 30mb/s per stream; so 30mb/s is a fine speed for a family that never streams to more than 1 tv, 150mb/s is perfect for 5 televisions, all streaming 4K, etc.
I think LTE is 30mb/s+ in fairly rural areas & 100mb+ in most urban areas.
Further... I’d wager that less than 1% of all smartphones in use have a 2160p screen anyways.
Again... unsure what you’re talking about- video is the most bandwidth intensive data type, whether you’re streaming it for good, for evil, for work, for pleasure, etc.
Not clear on your personal vs. “business” distinction.
What business use cases require streaming something that is higher data sizes than multiple 4K video streams, & what exactly is this mythical data of which you speak?
Yeah, and the problem being: how do we continue to make more money, larger profits and higher revenues? It’s the same problem every company and every person has under capitalism.
So the ATT CEO is basically saying “if we can find a way to screw the customer, we will”. Hopefully the T-Mobile CEO won’t think this way, which I doubt he will as he seems to be one of the few CEO’s in any industry that actually cares about the customer.
Cuz the promised speed is all around in the first place. That’s just stupid, especially if you don’t live in a metro area
Well that is because Fixed line aren't ( for majority of the market ) segmented by Data Caps. You get unlimited Data for everyone, so your pricing can only be done on speed.
I do think 5G creating a new speed / pricing tier is a good way though. Those who could afford and want latest speed can paid premium. While they could lower the 4G speed to 100Mbps only and give price discount. Depending on where you are, your maximum 100Mbps isn't going to make much difference as you would never have have achieve maximum speed anyway.
In many part of Asia they are already doing pricing tiers with Speed. 2Mbps / 7.4 Mbps / 21Mbps. etc.
I'm thankful that the networks in the U.K. are different. They all essentially give unlimited calls and texts, most plans are based on data, and they are idiotically high data allowances for reasonable prices. Competition here works. I pay £35 for 30Gb data a month.
True 5G is years off. Benefits will not be seen by all. It’s a given that 5G will go for a higher price. Once all the 5G infrastructure is in then we’ll begin to see some benefits. But like I said that’s a couple years off. Just because we see 5G phones in 2020 doesn’t mean the availability will be there
I look forward to when cell towers can serve up such speed that physically cabled internet is not necessary for most usage cases. So yeah, bring on the speed. Cable companies are likely spinning their gears trying to figure out how to stay viable in the future while phone companies are looking forward to eating them up.
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But if the government didn’t regulate the free market, there would be no competition, just one big fat telcom with no incentive to do anything much.
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Or rather everything would be a toll road.
It’s clear you don’t go much to crowded places like airports or busy cities. 4G in these situations is very slow or completely unusable. 5G copes much better with that.
Can't wait for 6G when they start tiering by location, type of smartphone, etc, etc...
Fun fact most people have forgotten: When the iPhone first came out, its data plan was $30 (called iPhone Unlimited Data). Unlimited 3G data for any other phone was only $20.
Yeah... with what kind coverage? Carriers will only deploy 5G in dense cities, where fiber broadband is likely to be available as well. Rural areas? With such short range of 5G coverage (even easily blocked by a window)? LOL.
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Please. 4G (or even 3G) are overly saturated because carriers oversaturate their access points and/or the area’s backbone in the name of profit. Changing to 5G won’t change their profit motivation. Carriers will always oversaturate their capacity, and with 5G, you will pay more for it. How delightful.
I’m not sure what makes telecommunications so expensive in the States. In Europe I pay about $70/mo for two 6gb phone planes, 200 cable channels and 200mb sec home internet.
Data capping sucks - I'm surprised US providers are planning on hitting customers with that now. Here 5G speed is a 10$ / month option and it's unlimited
Thats already a reality where I live, the lower priced contracts are quite often limited in speed and data-volume. My private contract used to be 3GB of Data at 25MBit/s (or so), thats more than enough for what I do. Now its 5GB and 100MBit/s and its gotten a bit cheaper so I am not complaining. If they had a cheaper offer with a similar data-volume but lower speed I would take that in a heartbeat.