While I was not charged overage fees, my data rate was crippled to 57Kbps.
The thing sits in the drawer and I NEVER use it because its useless.
I am paying $100 a month for it. They want $400!!! to cancel it.
Fuck these carriers.
If you don't have free roaming, a similar strategy might work with unlimited minutes on their own network if you just use enough of them that their costs are too high to support you. If you don't have unlimited minutes, you can probably upgrade your plan, use a ton, then if they try to force you to switch or pay overages, you will likely also have the option to walk away from the contract without a fee.
1) You're a multimillionaire without aspiration, and shouldn't be giving financial advice to the rest of us non-millionaires.
2) You're a troll, or are acting like one to get yourself hellbanned for some reason.
3) Your recent spat of negative karma comments are the result of some kind of new mental health issue, and you need to see a doctor.
And what kind of crap-ass site would ban someone for the three (out of five) comments I've made today which have been downvoted?
Pretty sure I can spot the actual troll here.
If you make enough comments that are bad enough then your account is likely to be banned. If that's your goal then at some point along the way you'll be only three comments in.
(I am not remarking on the quality of your other comments; I have not read them.)
Personally, I think it's a terrible idea. It's a much better plan to work together a couple decades of good borrowing history without paying much interest and then get unsecured loans totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and cash out.
It's not about not being able to borrow, it's about companies refusing to accept your business because you're a "risk", even when you offer to pay out the entire contract up front to show you're good for the money. It's a fucking pain in the ass
and no, there is no censorship or anything either. i dont have quite the same speeds as theus does, buti get ehat ipay for, andits cheap.
Your responsibility.
I can see how others may be misled by that marketing, though, so it’s no super great. No reason to get angry, just reason for concern. Some German carriers are much more upfront about that (they might say “1GB of data, throttled to GPRS speeds above that”) and I obviously prefer that kind of marketing. It’s less confusing and more honest.
My problem isn't about "you know what you're getting, it's clearly communicated"
My anger is because THERE IS NO FUCKING UNLIMITED PLAN AT ALL
We are on HN, I have been on the internet DAILY for 15 years now. EVERY SINGLE DAY for many hours.
As a travelling consultant, I rely heavily on mobile access to the internet.
The fact that I had an unlimited account in the past - but now that speeds are getting acceptable, they are crippling them by cost.
It is corporate greed and it is bullshit.
That is a load of horseshit.
Thank you.
- unlimited data plans were doled out when network operators knew full well that people couldn't actually use enough data to cause a crisis.
- Data usage spiked because people found new uses for phones which demanded more and more data (e.g. streaming shows)
- Operators found themselves underdeveloped with no prospect of demand tapering off
- At these levels, it maximizes the operator's profits to push people into rate-limited plans.
But, thanks for the insults. This place is really friendly!
Are you kidding me?
We went from simple networks to 3G to 4G --which requires new infrastructure deployments every few years.
We went from the mobile web being almost nothing to hundreds of millions of very capable mobile web devices in the past ten years (iPhone/iPad/Android...).
Network usage increased exponentially with the newer, more useful devices. People were buying "unlimited" plans and used 100-300MB per month, not they can easily go to over several GBs.
It's like you have a "unlimited free refills" soda fountain. When everyone has 2-3 drinks it's ok. When everyone starts having 10-20 sodas, well, you start putting some limit to those "unlimited refills".
I'm pretty sure no carrier in the US offers a better deal than $10/GB.
While it is perhaps somewhat legitimate to criticize an HN'er for failing to calculate the rate at which a data plan will be consumed at a given bandwidth, it is of questionable appropriateness in regard to the general public.