Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T

Path	csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T
Date	Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:27:24 +1000
Lines	23
Message-ID	<c7a9aaF3n95U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<QZl8ni0SmMe5d+rJQY9C5/uo@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version	1.0
Content-Type	text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding	7bit
X-Trace	individual.net ukEN0WMrMso8dLCJMAGnlQm8JbB1jNs3LAs2VxyR20PFwXBoz5
Cancel-Lock	sha1:q7KchtLdlgk3kCmF9bNvZ4qTVJ8=
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0
In-Reply-To	<QZl8ni0SmMe5d+rJQY9C5/uo@dont-email.me>
Xref	csiph.com comp.misc:4776

Show key headers only | View raw

On 9/9/2014 8:52 PM, Rich wrote:
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-08/wi-fi-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-verizon-and-at-and-t#r=hp-ls
>
>     A major threat looms over wireless carriers that have invested billions
>     in lightning-fast cellular networks: the humble Wi-Fi router.
>
>     Well more than half of the online activity produced by smartphone users
>     happens over Wi-Fi, according to newly released data from Adobe Systems
>     (ADBE). Although the report just came out on Monday, Adobe's research
>     found that Wi-Fi had already surpassed Web browsing via cellular
>     networks by early 2013. The data come from more than 10,000 websites.
>
>     ...
>

Here in Australia, I think the telcos have rather shot themselves in the 
foot by having post-paid plans with meagre data allowances coupled with 
truly punitive rates in excess of the allowance (quoted in cents per 
kilobyte to hide their true nature). As a result, "bill shock" is a 
phrase that's entered the language, and people are running scared when 
it comes to using cellular network data.

Sylvia.

Thread

Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-09 10:52 +0000
  Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-09 17:04 +0000
  Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-09 18:11 +0100
  Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-10 16:27 +1000
    Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-10 09:13 +0200
  Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-12 08:43 +0000
  Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-13 22:41 +1000
    Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-09-13 12:12 -0700
      Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-14 15:13 +1000
      Re: Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell out of Verizon and AT&T Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2014-09-14 19:28 +0200

csiph-web