Re: [iPad] Here's what I'd like to see in the next gen I phone!

 

When I was poor and just made rent I did not have the luxury of cabe TV. 

E in Long Beach
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On May 30, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Charles Carroll <911@learnasp.com> wrote:

 

Amen again!

The most appalling thing that happened in this country is multi-year contracts where if you fall behind they cut your service and make you pay the past due service you never got. Some poor schmoe has a bad 3 months and gets cable cut off for 2 months and then has to pay a 5 months bill for 3 months of cable 2 months they had no cable/internet.


Imagine power or water company could cut you off and then charge you for power or water you never got.

The cable company or cell phone companies should add 2 months to the end of your contract if they cut you off for 2 if multi-year contracts are just to pay for equipment (like DVRs or HiDef set top boxes). But this means a poor person that gets cable/internet cut off a few times in a 3 year contract may get 18-24 months of actual service for the price of 3 years and some HEFTY late fees to boot which make 3 years cost as much as 4 years when you factor in the late fees and penalties.

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, David H. Bailey <dhbailey52@comcast.net> wrote:
 

On 5/30/2012 5:05 PM, Charles Carroll wrote:
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>
> Amen to what David said.
>
> That is why I suggested a micro-payment rather than straight Ala Carte
> model.
>
> Why someone who watches 16 hours a day should pay the same as someone
> who watches 16 hours a week makes no sense.
>
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Of course the same could be said of internet usage as well, but I'd sure
hate like hell to go to a metered model where I'd never know from one
month to the next what I'd be paying.

And your analogy of your mother watching standard def tv and how she
shouldn't have to pay the same rate as those who watch hi-def tv would
work just as nicely on internet usage -- people who go only to
text-based web-sites shouldn't have to pay the same as those who visit
web-sites with large graphics and music playing.

And come to think of it, people who only drive 10 miles a week shouldn't
have to pay the same auto insurance rates as someone who drives 1000
miles a week.

There's much in modern life that could stand to go to the "actual usage"
billing model vs. the "package" billing model, but the nightmare of
tracking everybody's everything to be sure they're not using one iota 

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