In his article Larry Dignan discusses about the usage based
pricing of smartphones. Smartphones now become the part of life for most of us.
We are using mobile phones not only for voice, but also for browsing, social
networking, texting, even as a GPS. Except the voice and text, most other
services provided by the operator need data connection. It is also imposed by
the operators now to have data connections with smartphones.
Now in most cases, the operators force the smartphone users
to enroll for at least a minimum amount of data plan. After this limit, the
users have to pay a very high rate for data. Sometimes the data caps are so small for
the users that they are exceeded even within a week. After that the users need
to pay in a very high rate to access the internet.
In my opinion, usage based charging is reasonable, but the
charges beyond the data cap usage should be minimized. To reduce the huge data traffic on the network,
if a user exceeds his maximum allowable limit then one option for reducing data traffic is to reduce the
data bandwidth of that user.
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