@Amorrison wrote:
This is getting ridiculous. Data costs the companies nothing. It takes more effort to throttle the speeds and limit the amount. I'll just go back to not having a phone. I really thought this company would be different, but I guess not
Actually data, voice and text ALL cost the company nothing to provide. Well... except for the Billions it costs buy spectrum, provision a network across the country and keep it working as well as upgrading it all the time. And the annual payments to keep using the spectrum purchased for hundreds of millions plus monthly fees to the owner of the location of the cell sites etc. Because of these small nickel and dimming expenses the network providers decided that free wasn’t a good model, they will need to charge for what they provide. Thus the current model you see before you.
Public Mobile isn't an independent cell provider, they are the bottom tier provider from Telus. They appeal to people who want the lowest cost service possible. If they were to throw the doors open, full LTE speeds for all customers and while at it made it unlimited data (because “it costs them nothing to do so” how many customers would stay at Telus and Koodo? They would ALL migrate to PM with the much better priced plans. And that would be the day that Telus stopped providing new or better service to the less urban areas and the massive expense of 5G roll out would be cancelled.
I sort of like the model we have where the Telus customers that “can’t live” without the fastest LTE speeds pay for the network and we get to tag along at much lower cost by being limited to “3G Like Speeds” and having to get customer service “online instead of on the phone” just to keep it from being too good for everyone else to resist!
JMHO (this is a recording) AE_Collector
