Let's put this in perspective. The VAST majority of average feature phone users exhaust FAR less than 10MB / month (assuming, of course, that they don't tether). In fact, the average BlackBerry subscriber (who relies on data much more heavily than his Fido counterpart using a 12-key LG TU500) only uses around 4 MB on average.
So, all considered, $10 for a data plan is damn good price assuming it's put on a flip phone like the TU 500 with a WAP browser.
Laptop cards and tethered units are a different story, of course...
Keep in mind the BlackBerry was really a glorified 2-way pager when RIM released it back in 1999-2000. Man, and when I think Verizon gets pretty bad...
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Vince Maling @ Nov 1st 2007 6:55PM
Wait just a minute.
Let's put this in perspective. The VAST majority of average feature phone users exhaust FAR less than 10MB / month (assuming, of course, that they don't tether). In fact, the average BlackBerry subscriber (who relies on data much more heavily than his Fido counterpart using a 12-key LG TU500) only uses around 4 MB on average.
So, all considered, $10 for a data plan is damn good price assuming it's put on a flip phone like the TU 500 with a WAP browser.
Laptop cards and tethered units are a different story, of course...
Fido-di-bund-ch-lun @ Nov 1st 2007 10:29PM
Ummm, balckberries compress data like crazy, but thanks for playing.
Vince Maling @ Nov 1st 2007 11:17PM
@Fido
Yeah, thanks for pointing out how BlackBerries work.
Now try taking a look at how LG flip phones compress data. You might learn something.
Navi Thach @ Nov 4th 2007 1:50AM
Keep in mind the BlackBerry was really a glorified 2-way pager when RIM released it back in 1999-2000. Man, and when I think Verizon gets pretty bad...