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Mobile device and internet price

Posted onAuthorTruXterLeave a comment

I read a post on reddit (which linked to this article) that covers a few of the topics I have covered before. This brought up an issue I am having. This issue is with my cell carrier charging me more for less.
Seriously I don’t see why so many people pretend this isn’t going on. My only guess is everyone really wants to pretend they are so wealthy, they don’t worry about stuff. Or they figure they can’t do anything about the issue so they won’t discuss it and assure someone else they notice the issue, so something can get started to solve it.
The issue. Is bandwidth limits. 4 gigs.
what can you do with 2-4 gigs a month?
Not dang thing.
Except check email.
Facebook has too many pictures. You should hit your cap before the end of the month all year round.
but the trick is, you upgrade your phone to a phone that can only use 4G and now your unlimited internet is capped at 2-4 gigs a month. and my carrier will not allow me to switch back to 3g for this phone. My cell phone provider says my phone won’t work on 3g because my cell phone is specifically made for 4g. So their website wouldn’t even let me register the phone I had until I would call and change my service plan. Since the 3g cell phone I had couldn’t use 4 g it wouldn’t let me change my plan. Imagine how those phone calls went when I was speaking to Stewy in the middle east..So now I am on a 4g plan that costs slightly more than my 3g plan was… Which was unlimited, and of course when I am in an area that doesn’t have 3g, the internet status on the phone shows that I am running at 3g or whatever is available.
Seriously. I do not see much difference between 4g and 3g. at all. Signal isn’t better. bandwidth might be a tad faster on the stats tests, but youtube still loads like hell.
Something posted on reddit on this issue.

They’re like drug dealers “here, have better stronger faster internets on your little squint device, at the same price as your home device… but you can only have so much a month, unless you pay more”.

This mentality is as if there is a limited amount of internet “sorry sir but your internet baggy is now empty, pay more and we will refill it for you, only so much per person”.

as if they are conserving something.

Truth is. If they leave their bandwidth at one current speed and not increase to faster,The more their use goes up, would reflect more customers are signing up. It’s not our fault they increased their speed.

I mean really , how fast do you need to load a 6kb m.xxx.com website?

The whole thing is a f-ing scam.

Someone seemingly fighting this battle all alone for a while now.

2009 saying same thing

2010 saying same thing

2012 saying same thing

and it seems to be coming more and more true.

Later in 2012

We’re all feeding a corporate beast in denial. To hide our sham e of being so gullible we tell ourselves we like it and need it and take it to the next level of upgrading and updating our phones and other mobile devices to the latest and greatest as soon as it comes out. That’s $400 each time. That’s two or three times a year. We want people to think we are on top of things and smart. Truth is, if we were smart we would know that these devices do nothing but waste our valuable time and ruin our eyesight doing it. Yet here we are. You on your iPad, either agreeing or disagreeing with me.

Weening myself off the grid

Posted onAuthorTruXter

I have just 10 more months on my phone contract and then I am dropping it. I have been using my T-Mobile G1 from Google for about a year and half. I found myself adding packages to my plan and getting more and better add-ons every so many months. My phone bill has become so expensive, I almost can’t afford lunch while I am at work trying to pay my phone bill. but on a cool note, i have driving directions to any place in the world. I really do not travel and the GPS feature on my android phone drained my battery. So I would have to turn the GPS feature on and off. Some times that feature would hang, so I installed “advanced task killer” and found that I constantly had programs running. Now that I was using that I found myself turning something off with my phone so often, that one day while in the shower I didn’t like the smell of my soap so I almost clicked it like I could turn off the soap scent. Way too much.
Unlimited text messages for $15 a month, meanwhile I receive about 20-30 total. Internet for $35 a month meanwhile I get 28mbs at home on my pc and only pay $45 a month. I am always home and always on my computer. Why in the heck am I paying for this ?
My phone bill is set at $39 a month right now with everything turned off and before the what ever extra fees t-mobile adds which for some reason isn’t listed until you get the bill. It’s like 6-9 bucks.
After my phone contract expires, I am done with the cell phone. I don’t like having people able to locate me anywhere I am. I like the freedom to say ” did you leave a message on my answering machine?” that way I can be out in public and hitting on the near by women instead of clicking on my Facebook app posting about what a great time I am having, as apposed to actually having a good time.
why do we tell our-self that we need to have a barcode scanner in our phone to see how great of a deal we would be getting elsewhere? Do we really want to shop at 6 different places to buy 6 items instead of one place? The amount you save verses the value of your time. Don’t forget the extra taxes of separate transactions. Time is money that I only have a limited amount of. Done with letting someone else live off of me in payments of “What I think I need”. Sure as a single man you notice that it’s hard to get a woman’s attention when you have very little to share or show off. you can have shiny stuff, fine, but you don’t have to make endless payments that are beyond the rationality of it’s usability.
Time to stop buying what I do not need and focus on what I really need. Why am I buying stuff i don’t need and trying to simply the tiny useless junk????

Internet Price changes, Fair? or Fare?

Posted onAuthorComputer Tweaker1 Comment

We all know that Comcast is going to increase their prices. They made that announcement the moment they found out they could not start charging website owners for the “traffic they bring them”.  and we all see the new filters Comcast has put into their  servers, the ones that direct us to their designated page, so we do not ” get the inconvenience of a 404 page”. To the common that say they are doing us a wonderful favor of removing  unattractive pages that display nothing for us. The wise know that the filter is there and could potentially be used for extortion. Meaning specific websites could be  shut off by a specific internet provider. Let’s say a large enough internet provider, one that has a  40% foot hold of all united states internet users. 40% of all users being filtered by one company, is bad bad bad bad. If 40% of the readers who view this site just suddenly stopped reading, I would really feel like I am being shut down and feel like I could potentially be done wrong.

I don’t know about you, but I pay my web provider to allow me to go to websites using their services. So they are already making money from me and many others, for just that. The internet providers making money off of the website owners for the traffic that hits said websites using said owners, purely is greed. That’s almost like building a toll road, keeping fees for usage of the toll-road active, meanwhile using tax money to maintain said toll roads. Oh, they do that in Houston. hmmm..

Well the truth is, internet usage and file  downloads have all been increased.  How? well not by using Comcast. but closer to you than that. Smart phones or App phones, all have constant running  apps that use internet at all hours of the day. Pretty much all phones that use android have a default of keeping you signed into Gmail 24/7. You have to pay the internet fee for this services if you do not have internet services already. Here’s the funny part (before you say .. oh ok. that’s a lot),  you pay  $35 a month for that internet service. You can’t really do anything with that service other than stay connected. It’s a tiny 3 inch screen. the actual file transfer is so tiny it’s just a tiny portion of what what it would be on your home pc. yet the cost is 80% of the pc internet fee. Sure Comcast wants in on that action and that kind of fee. So now they limit our monthly usage and want to charge us for overages. Well because the number of users have increased. sure they did, Comcast bought out other services. The world did not suddenly gain 60% more people who use internet. Just Comcast’s user count increased. The amount of servers and hubs have increased at the same time . Picture a janitorial company buying out all the other janitor services, and then increasing fees because demand is up… like they lost all of the mops and janitors they just hired or something. Same thing.

Meanwhile Comcast cranks up their bandwdith to outrageous speeds. Unthinkable speeds compared to five years ago. 5 years ago 2.5 mbps was hard to come by. Now internet speeds are commonly 25mbps. there is no way you will drop that kind of service, you will just try an not go over  your amount of consumable internet downloads. Well that’s just the way we all think. That’s kind of is dense. In reality you want faster so you can download more much easily, but are willing to download less to keep fees down for overages. They know how to market us.

I advise you do not fall for this stuff. If we all just drop capitalistic companies, these companies can not continue with what  they do. Net Neutrality, H.R.6123,  what ever you want to call it