LittleJess
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Now, this is more of a rant style topic, but ever come across things like "Mobile Broadband" now my personal connection itself is 4G but it's not mobile, It's home broadband. (I get unlimited)
Anyways lets get to it, lets say you want 3GB of data, you have to shell out $50, now a person like me uses 3GB even without downloading things very quickly, since most websites chew tons of data just on images, that means Facebook will chew a lot of data per day. (and don't forget the automatically playing videos) so the average joe will eat it up quickly as I learned the hard way.
Now considering most people pay anywhere from $50-$100 for there home broadband, now we have a look at mobile broadband, lets say this, I use roughly 100-200GB give or take, now get this, so It's $50 per 3
Not sure if my maths is right, but for me to even pay for mobile broadband a month, I would end up wasting, 66 * 50 = $3300 (if my maths is correct)...
I'm not sure if people have been convinced by sales people or what not, but lets say I know someone and lets call them Jeff, who thinks that It's cheaper than unlimited home broadband....
Don't know how they got conned, but they really thing 500MB > 500GB and no matter how much convincing and maths I do to show them, they still think it's cheaper.
From memory, it only lasts him a couple days, so he is literally shelling out $50 per every 3 days. Even most peoples phones will chew up 1GB, I've had it happen on multiple occasions myself.
Here is the thing, personally I think it's a money milking scam, just like "speed packs" on fucking cable, I Know with some companies in australia you pay like I think $89 for cable and get like 10mbps? and than if you pay $20 extra you get 20-50mbps. I might be wrong with the numbers, but generally that's how "speed packs work", you get less than your supposed to, than pay more to get faster speeds.
NBN example.
(nbn™ 25*, nbn™ 50* and nbn™ 100*. )
They are trying to do the same thing with the NBN, You've got multiple "speed packs", anyways that isn't so much a problem, but from memory my city is getting the NBN but.... we are getting a fucked up version of it called fiber to the node, which from what I've gathered, is we got the shit end of the deal, as given time the copper infrastructure will get worse. Pretty sure the average ADSL speed is like 2mbps here.
Anyways lets get to it, lets say you want 3GB of data, you have to shell out $50, now a person like me uses 3GB even without downloading things very quickly, since most websites chew tons of data just on images, that means Facebook will chew a lot of data per day. (and don't forget the automatically playing videos) so the average joe will eat it up quickly as I learned the hard way.
Now considering most people pay anywhere from $50-$100 for there home broadband, now we have a look at mobile broadband, lets say this, I use roughly 100-200GB give or take, now get this, so It's $50 per 3
Not sure if my maths is right, but for me to even pay for mobile broadband a month, I would end up wasting, 66 * 50 = $3300 (if my maths is correct)...
I'm not sure if people have been convinced by sales people or what not, but lets say I know someone and lets call them Jeff, who thinks that It's cheaper than unlimited home broadband....
Don't know how they got conned, but they really thing 500MB > 500GB and no matter how much convincing and maths I do to show them, they still think it's cheaper.
From memory, it only lasts him a couple days, so he is literally shelling out $50 per every 3 days. Even most peoples phones will chew up 1GB, I've had it happen on multiple occasions myself.
Here is the thing, personally I think it's a money milking scam, just like "speed packs" on fucking cable, I Know with some companies in australia you pay like I think $89 for cable and get like 10mbps? and than if you pay $20 extra you get 20-50mbps. I might be wrong with the numbers, but generally that's how "speed packs work", you get less than your supposed to, than pay more to get faster speeds.
NBN example.
(nbn™ 25*, nbn™ 50* and nbn™ 100*. )
They are trying to do the same thing with the NBN, You've got multiple "speed packs", anyways that isn't so much a problem, but from memory my city is getting the NBN but.... we are getting a fucked up version of it called fiber to the node, which from what I've gathered, is we got the shit end of the deal, as given time the copper infrastructure will get worse. Pretty sure the average ADSL speed is like 2mbps here.
