subject: AT&T Increases Tethering Data Plan Limit to 4 GB [print this page] AT&T Increases Tethering Data Plan Limit to 4 GB
If we all had dedicated wires connected to our handsets, and we never moved them from one location, that home analogy might work.
Instead, our phones can connect from almost anywhere, and have to share chunks of fairly limited cell bandwidth.If we all had dedicated wires connected to our handsets, and we never moved them from one location, that home analogy might work.
Instead, our phones can connect from almost anywhere, and have to share chunks of fairly limited cell bandwidth.
If we all had dedicated wires connected to our handsets, and we never moved them from one location, that home analogy might work.
Instead, our phones can connect from almost anywhere, and have to share chunks of fairly limited cell bandwidth.
The prices we all pay today for wireless connections are incredibly cheap compared to ten years ago. Back then, most of us had 19Kbps (max) dialups on our phones, and were even charged by connection minutes, which made surfing the web pretty darned expensive unless you hurried ! (Many of us turned off picture downloads on our browsers to save money.)
Heck, 1GB of transfer at 10 cents a minute would've cost over $800.
There is one problem with your analogy kdarling... The internet today is a completely different evolved creature than 10 years ago.
What was YouTube 10 years ago? Nothing. It didn't exist for another 4 years. What was Facebook? Again, nothing.
Flash was something of minor thing and even MySpace hadn't been thought of yet.
Downloading a 3.2MB mp3 file was a half day thing even on cable modems back in the day.
There were no 1GB files to think about transferring let alone over a "high-speed" cable modem in 2001. Top of the line Power Mac G4's only came with 60-80 GB hard drives.
In today's internet climate, information consumption and sharing is what it is all about.
The prices we all pay today for wireless connections are incredibly cheap compared to ten years ago. Back then, most of us had 19Kbps (max) dialups on our phones, and were even charged by connection minutes, which made surfing the web pretty darned expensive unless you hurried ! (Many of us turned off picture downloads on our browsers to save money.)
Heck, 1GB of transfer at 10 cents a minute would've cost over $800.
There is one problem with your analogy kdarling... The internet today is a completely different evolved creature than 10 years ago.
What was YouTube 10 years ago? Nothing. It didn't exist for another 4 years. What was Facebook? Again, nothing.
Flash was something of minor thing and even MySpace hadn't been thought of yet.
Downloading a 3.2MB mp3 file was a half day thing even on cable modems back in the day.
There were no 1GB files to think about transferring let alone over a "high-speed" cable modem in 2001. Top of the line Power Mac G4's only came with 60-80 GB hard drives.
In today's internet climate, information consumption and sharing is what it is all about.
The prices we all pay today for wireless connections are incredibly cheap compared to ten years ago. Back then, most of us had 19Kbps (max) dialups on our phones, and were even charged by connection minutes, which made surfing the web pretty darned expensive unless you hurried ! (Many of us turned off picture downloads on our browsers to save money.)
Heck, 1GB of transfer at 10 cents a minute would've cost over $800.
There is one problem with your analogy kdarling... The internet today is a completely different evolved creature than 10 years ago.
What was YouTube 10 years ago? Nothing. It didn't exist for another 4 years. What was Facebook? Again, nothing.
Flash was something of minor thing and even MySpace hadn't been thought of yet.
Downloading a 3.2MB mp3 file was a half day thing even on cable modems back in the day.
There were no 1GB files to think about transferring let alone over a "high-speed" cable modem in 2001. Top of the line Power Mac G4's only came with 60-80 GB hard drives.
In today's internet climate, information consumption and sharing is what it is all about.
