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Bandwidth Caps, Throttling and Your Bottom Line
Cellular Net Neutrality Issues Affect Your Costs
Nobody likes to see the dreaded message, “Your bandwidth usage has exceeded the allocated cap.” It never bodes good things for the mobile user. Additional data above cap often costs $0.05 per MB.
You will remember, from one of my recent articles, just how expensive that really is. There has been a lot of demand for unlimited data plans. Canadian mobile carriers, following suit with the policies they set for high speed Internet access, have adamantly refused to institute unlimited data plans for cell phones. They have set cap limits of 5-6 GB, which is fine, if all you want to do is e-mail.
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The High Cost of Data
Why Expensive Data Services are Stifling Canadian Mobile Services
Canada has some of the most expensive data services in the world. Right now Canadians looking for 3G service are looking at having to pay around $0.05 per MB, approximately 4 times more than what a customer would pay in the USA at the same price point. Even so, it might not seem like paying $0.05 per MB is that bad.
But a single HTML5 format Youtube video is going to be 7.5 MB / min. What that means is that the Arcade Fire video you watched on the bus cost you about $2.50 to watch just once. Read the rest of this entry »
How much data do I need on my cell phone plan?
Need data for your smart phone? Know where you stand.
In order to get the full value from your smart phone you will need to purchase a separate data plan, which varies by carrier. A data plan will allow you to browse the internet and check email, however, the plans can vary quite substantially and estimating your data needs is important in keeping your monthly costs manageable.
So let’s answer the question, “How much data do you need on your smart phone?”
What happened to unlimited data plans?
Why have unlimited data plans disappeared from the market?
Do you remember the good old days of unlimited data? Well let me refresh your memory. Bell actually started the unlimited data “revolution” way back in Q3 2007, around late September, when they introduced a $75 unlimited data plan for PC card or Internet Stick users. This was unprecedented when Bell introduced this plan. Considering that PC card users at the time were paying as high as $12 per MB (that’s over $1200 per GB) to use their air card. Read the rest of this entry »
