[QUOTE=Drum;2556294]With the elimination of unlimited data plans and the slow speeds, I don’t think many people will be moving from high speed DSL or Cable to cell phone internet access. It’s too expensive and slow to be anything but emergency and mobile internet access. I have seen a lot of advertisments saying up to 7Mb, but of all the people I know who use it including my wife who uses it for travel, none has ever seen anything close to this in actual download speeds, connection speeds, yes, but that is not download speeds. Download speeds generally aren’t even close to minimum DSL speeds.
In fact I expect to see a drop off in cellular users as the prices increase as providors try to “provide plans that are more in line with customer needs” (ROFLAMO) and drop unlimited palns to make more money on people who go over their monthly limit the first week uning the GPS feature…
People like me who use pocket PCs and refuse to pay insane prices for mobile data plans are running out of options. There are fewer and fewer non phone pocket PCs being made and most if not all cellular providers require you to have a data plan if you have a smart phone on their network. Doesn;t matter if you only want to use it with WiFi, no data plan no smart phone, even if you buy an unlocked phone cash.[/QUOTE]You are probably right - my plan is company subsidized so I forget about how high the data access costs are in real life. I do chose to keep my FIOS connection, which, when bundled with their TV and Phone service is not that expensive - especially for the speeds that I get for uploading and downloading. Hopefully someday, there will be some form of Universal Broadband access at a price that anyone can afford, maybe a Wi-Max of some sort, but until then…
