[Cialug] Commerical Interruption

[Josh More]

Matt,

I know.  However, there are a couple of real world factors here.

1) My data usage varies greatly depending on my particular projects.  One month might be 100M, one might be 5Gb.  Generally if you don't egregiously abuse "unlimited", you can point to past usage and sweet talk your way into dropping charges.

2) If a plan says "unlimited", you can generally make a big enough fuss to have charges dropped or to let you out of a long-term contract.  If you are unpleasant enough in a store... after attempting the "being kind" approach, of course, the CSRs can often do magic things to your account to make you leave happy enough.  It's a bit of a nuclear option, I know, but there you are.

Personally, since I sign a two year contract to get the service, I think it'd be nice if the limits were based on the two year period and not monthly.  I think that over longer-term time scales, my minute and bandwidth usage might better fit a particular plan.  But again, I may be unusual in this regard.



-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of Matt Breitbach [matthewb at flash.shanje.com]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:52
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption

Josh - hate to burst your bubble, but there isn't any "Unlimited" data that
I know of.  All of the carriers sell "unlimited" data, but I don't think any
of them actually allow it.  I think if you hit a certain limit, you will
start getting charged.

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Josh More
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:48 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption

Not to those of us who just extended our contract with Sprint by two years
to get an Evo.  ;)

More seriously, due to the nature of my job, I need unlimited data.  Others
might not be in the same boat.

-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of
Dave Weis [djweis at internetsolver.com]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:43
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption

If anyone is interested in the stats so far, the average minute usage per
phone is 350, average texts per phone is 360, and the average data usage per
phone is 291 megs. If you exclude the non data users, the average usage per
phone is 621 megs per month. The average cost per telephone is $45.

If we offered something in the range of 500 minutes, 500 text, and 500 megs
for $50 and 1000 minutes, 1000 text, and 1000 megs for $75, would that be
appealing?

Dave

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Weis
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 3:05 PM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption
>
>
> Sorry for the non-Linux related question but I would greatly
> appreciate everyone's input on a new product we are working
> on - wireless telephone service. I need to gather a couple
> bits of data to get a better idea of pricing and plans that
> people have. If you could reply offlist with the following
> questions I would greatly appreciate it:
>
> * Carrier
> * Number of phones on plan
> * Monthly Cost
> * Minutes Used per Month
> * Texts Used per Month
> * KB/MB Used per Month
>
> If you don't know all of the questions just let me know the
> ones you do know.
>
> I'm going to be looking for some testers in a month or two
> that will be the first people on Internet Solver Wireless. If
> you have any other questions, let me know.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
>
>
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