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Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by irishcoffee »

christina97 wrote: post #279
irishcoffee wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speed isn’t great, but that’s about 25% of “full speed” use over the course of a month, 600k seconds. Considering sleep is about 30% of a month as well, and assuming you’re not on a phone all day while working, it might be hard to hit that cap. Speed isn’t great, to reiterate. The cost is 30x cheaper than what I pay, and my speed, at my house, is 10mbps. No cap, but I use like 5gb/month. Or am I way off and you hit t…

I believe parent meant that 1 mbps is the speed AFTER you hit 75 GB per month.

Oh wow, that's an insane deal.

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Post by heraldgeezer »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #35
Someone1234 wrote: post #16

I'm actually a huge fan of "unlimited slow speeds" as a falloff, instead of a cliff. Aside from the fact it allows you to work with Starlink to buy more fast speed, it also allows core stuff to continue to function (e.g. basic notifications, non-streaming web traffic, etc).

My mobile data plan is like this. It’s funny because when I’m “out of data” my provider sends an SMS suggesting I upgrade to more gigabytes, but then it still continues to work. And yes I checked my bills to make sure that they are not charging me for any usage excess of what’s included in the plan. It’s not even particularly slow. I can still browse the web, send and receive WhatsApp messages, images and videos, wat…

Where do you live?

And are you poor?

My 40GB plan is 12$ a month.

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Post by heraldgeezer »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #308
mikeocool wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should shop around! Some of the MVNOs are offering unlimited fast data at a similar price these days, and something similar to what you have now for cheaper.

MVNO's for life. Weird how they haven't cannibalize their providers yet with such pricing.

They are often owned by the providers themselves.

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Post by rmunn »

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #154
shimman wrote: post #54

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Yes and the seeds have already been planted by the current US administration taking various financial stakes in public companies as a condition of corporate welfare.

Huge difference between taking an equity stake in a failing company and nationalizing a successful company. Either way, those seeds were planted well before this admin, though this admin can be seen to have watered/tended them.

One of those differences being "Hey, we want to buy some shares at market price, will you sell them to us?" vs "We're taking over your company, and if you don't like it, talk to the men with the guns".

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Post by gerad »

Salgat wrote: post #139
consumer451 wrote: post #90

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> I'm actually a huge fan of "unlimited slow speeds" as a falloff, instead of a cliff. When on cellular, I like to call that "HN-only mode." It is one of the few web properties that is entirely usable at 2G speeds.

I would kill for a web renaissance to return to this format of webpages, as least as an option. Not only loading improves, but also navigation and accessibility.

lol. It’s called Gemini.

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Post by bobsmooth »

typon wrote: post #131
dayyan wrote: post #127

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That's the magic of the free market. Even with no direct rival yet, Starlink innovates like crazy because the threat of competition is always there and consumers demand excellence. Unlike state-granted monopolies, those parasitic structures stagnate and plunder the people.

Is this why Google Search has been getting better and better every year?

It's why Kagi and DuckDuckGo exist.

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Post by kortilla »

iloveitaly wrote: post #70

Really interesting that Starlink continues to improve the service when they have an absolute monopoly on fast, portable satellite internet.

They have a monopoly on sat-only market, but that isn’t really big enough of a market to support their growth goals. They want to eat all wireless providers Internet as well.

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Post by coolspot »

lbhdc wrote: post #25
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #17

They could make it 1000GB for US$10/month and I still wouldn't give any money to a company associated with that man.

I know everyone has strong opinions about Elon, but for $10/mo I would absolutely get this. At $50/mo, I don't have enough of a need to get it.

There is a ”secret” $10/month 10GB roam plan.
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