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To: mightylakers who wrote (115765)	3/18/2002 5:45:45 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) of 152472

I don't think any carrier wanna do that, so they will lower the bar as low as possible until it endanger the customer take up. However on the other hand since you can actually get much higher speed than you are promised to, it will be good for the long run. This may be true in a "pay by the minute, or pay by the byte" type of billing scenario. But, the economics of providing "flat rate data services" are quite different. Flat Rate voice service providers work on the law of averages. Could they make a profit if everyone used 10,000 MOU per month?? No! Of course not! Now their networks may have the capacity to deliver this type of capacity, but there is a cost associated with evey MOU provided!! The same holds true for "Flat Rate Data Services" The product "data" is not free! Even though some believe so. The costs of delivering data are proportionate to the amount of data used. (See the Qualcomm White Paper). So if you operate in a "Flat-Rate Environment" then moderating the "user experience" will result in moderating your Cost of Service Expenses, and increasing margins. How many people download large MP3 files over dial-up 50kbs vs. over 500kbs? PCSTEL

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