Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Wireless Data Caps


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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