voipdabbler
join:2006-04-27
Kalispell, MT
| reply to en102
Re: How does casual tethering usage come into play with this?
I like tethering too, even though I don't live in an area served by EVDO; it's nice to be able to tether the laptop to the phone when traveling. Unfortunately, with Verizon acquiring my cellular carrier, Alltel, I'll lose that feature since Verizon doesn't like customers to tether phones (they want that extra money). With the imposition of caps on home-based broadband, I think it's inevitable that more who live in areas with decent cellular broadband signals and capacity will begin to chose to have cellular broadband only Why deal with two devils--make life simpler--deal with the one whose service gives you mobility. TW and Frontier have announced ridiculously low caps for home-based broadband and Comcast's announced cap keeps falling (I can see them dropping to as low as 8-10 GB per month if it looks like TW and Frontier won't get any local regulatory flack for their new stealth price increases via caps ). The baby bells are salivating and will chose the lowest cap they can get away with. If I were in an urban area with decent EVDO or 3G, I'd seriously consider dropping home VOIP and go cellular broadband only, even with the caps. At least the mobility is a great feature. |
