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Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans

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Re: Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans

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I'm more stunned by the price: I pay 20€ for unlimited and unrestricted data access with a double SIM (one mobile broadband, other for phone). And they want to charge more for other video access?

Whoa. MetroPCS is considered cheap in the USA, as most plans are around 60 a month.

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Re: Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans

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I'm more stunned by the price: I pay 20€ for unlimited and unrestricted data access with a double SIM (one mobile broadband, other for phone). And they want to charge more for other video access?

I was shocked too when I came to the US for a few months.

In Germany, I just pay 9 cents per SMS/Minute and 10 Euros for a Gigabyte of data (per month).

In the US, I had to pay about 50 USD per Month on T-Mobile. It would have been more if I actually told them I had a smartphone ("Nah, I've got an old Nokia, I just want to be able to get eMails").

Re: Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans

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I'm more stunned by the price: I pay 20€ for unlimited and unrestricted data access with a double SIM (one mobile broadband, other for phone). And they want to charge more for other video access?

I’m shocked by how expensive mobile internet is in the US. I’m with giffgaff here in the UK, and I pay £10/month for 250 calling minutes, unlimited SMS and unlimited internet (no fair use policy).

Re: Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans

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Blocking sites because they're "not on the service plan" is likely to be much more acceptable in western countries than explicit censorship, as in Iran or China. It's authoritarianism dressed up as commercialism. In the post-Wikileaks era my bet is that governments will either encourage, or at least not do anything to hinder, the erection of walled gardens which make it more difficult for the average internet user to get access to unauthorised sources of content. The next decade could see a return to the Compuserve-like internet services which existed in the 1990s.
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