AT&T Rolls Out New Data Plan for Heavy Users

[theargiope]

[citation][nom]TheRabidDeer[/nom]You shouldve converted 800 seconds into minutes to see just how little transfer that is.800 seconds = a little more than 13 minutes. The full 4GB is about 7 hours. Considering the number of people that watch more than 13 minutes of youtube each day, thats not very much bandwidth. Also, people will continue to use even more bandwidth on their phones as they are able to watch netflix on them soon (and may even hook their phones up to their tv to watch netflix).[/citation]

You are confusing actual network activity time with device usage time. A 3-minute YouTube video may only take 45 seconds to download. At 1.35Mbps, you're getting 1MB in under 10 seconds.

The vast majority -- 95%+ -- of data transfers take seconds, not minutes. But it's easy to understand where you are coming from since we've been so used to paying a minute for a 10 second phone all these years.

As for NetFlix -- while some folks may stream a 500MB show over their iPhone often, these are the folks I fold into that small tier of power users. Such usage would be balanced out by the massive majority that only use their iPhone for email and basics. Those people only i/o a few hundred MB a month.

The bandwidth premiums are a hoax any way you look at it.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

its all bullshit, any way you look at it.

 

[eddieroolz]

Of course, influenced directly by Verizon.