Tethering Plans are RIDICULOUS!

January 10, 2012 in Commentary

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Tethering plans are ridiculous and quite frankly I consider them to be predatory. 聽Cell phone companies are making money by double dipping. 聽They are charging customers twice for the same data consumption. 聽Cell phone companies claim that you should have to pay to connect a device to your cell phone if that device is using your phone’s data connection. 聽I think that’s a crock of bull! 聽If I’m paying for 5 gigs of data, then it shouldn’t matter how I use that data. 聽Whether the data consumption is directly from my phone or from a tethered laptop or tablet 5 gigs of data is still 5 gigs of data. 聽Why should I have to pay more money than I’m already paying to use the same amount of data I was already using just because I want to connect my laptop? 聽If at the end of a billing cycle I use 3 gigs of data with my cell phone use combined with tethering, how is that any different than if I use 3 gigs of data directly from my phone? 聽Simply put, it isn’t. 聽There’s no difference at all. The only difference is what the cell phone company wants to charge you for the exact same data usage. 聽In my opinion, this practice borders on criminal. 聽Imagine if when you got gas, the gas station told you that you were not allowed to travel out of the state with the particular grade of gas you purchased, and that if you wanted to travel out of state you needed to purchase a different higher priced gasoline. 聽That would be ludicrous and nobody would accept that. 聽Well it’s the same concept when it comes to cell phones. 聽The cell phone companies are needlessly charging additional fees for a service they really aren’t providing. 聽 聽Time to do away with tethering charges.

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