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To: slacker711 who wrote (92288)	6/9/2010 5:43:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 196568

My theory about <watchers won't drop $15/mo > is that big shot telecom executives and even lowly overpaid corporate layabouts in Qualcomm really can't understand that regular garden-variety humans think that adding another $15 a month to their already indebted lives is way out of line. $15 to big shots is absolutely nothing. They really can't imagine anyone thinking that's an amount of money worth giving a second thought. Another faulty aspect of their thinking is that they want to take customers hostage and tie them into regular monthly payments whether they want to use the service in a particular month or not. It would be a simple matter for FLO viewers to simply pay by the minute they are connected and pay more or less per minute depending on the channel they choose to watch. If they wanted to watch the advertising channel, it would be free and the advertisers would bid for channel space. If they wanted to watch the Super Bowl it would be expensive per minute. If they wanted to watch CNBC for a few minutes it would cost a little. Meanwhile, the eat-all-you-like mobile data plans are being ditched in favour of the sensible way of charging for data which is according to the amount of data used. Sometime, they'll get around to congestion charges too. They are one of these days going to reinvent the idea of supply and demand and price as the arbiter of who gets what. It was ridiculous that Steve Jobs was unable to demonstrate his new system because the wifi was too busy. How come he didn't have his own backhaul and his own wifi connection? Having a great device which can't connect due to overload is hopeless [supposedly AT&T is too busy too often with all you can eat customers eating lots]. Mqurice

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