Do you happen to have any articles or data to back up that claim?
I don't disagree, but I'd love to see the rate changes over time.
I don't disagree, but I'd love to see the rate changes over time.
- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-att-wireless-plan-caps-phone...
2GB for $25/mo with AT&T, $10/GB overage.
Now?
- https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html
$30/mo for 2GB, with $15/GB overage.
From my original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9110720
Data prices do seem to have gotten better:
http://about.att.com/story/att_offers_its_best_ever_pricing_...
where they reduced the plan from $80 to $65 for voice+2GB data.
Indeed, last year to go from 2GB to 5GB cost $20, and now costs $25.
- http://www.att.com/att/planner/
From the CBS article, "With that plan and voice service, a smart phone could cost as little as $55 per month before taxes and add-on fees, down from $70 per month."
According to AT&T's planner, that means in SIX YEARS, costs haven't changed at all, overall.
In Saskatchewan, for example, there is a public sector telco (Sasktel) that provides the same services that the big three national telcos (Rogers, Bell, Telus) provide. As a result, the prices in Saskatchewan are significantly cheaper than in neighbouring Alberta (where there are only the big three).
It's very eye-opening to go to the Rogers site and flip between AB and SK to see how the prices change.
I'm deliberately excluding the smaller players like Wind because they don't provide the same service, the smaller players lack the geographical coverage that the big three have.
As a direct example of the Rogers pricing difference, the 10 GB "share everything" plan (unlimited talk/text) costs $65/mo in SK but over twice that, $135/mo in AB!
$10 (USD) for 10GB here, fast 3G basically everywhere. It's blowing my mind compared to the costs back in Canada