sand_man
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Why not simply pay for what one uses as is the case with phone calls and smses...?
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Exactly! - Even if I do have to pay a little more per gig. In the long run it won't cost more because I'll only be paying for what I use and not forfeiting every month. I really don't want to have to subsidize others. I don't do it with my medical aid or with my retirement plans, why should I be forced to do it with my broadband.
C'mon People - Seriously
okay... seriously - for all you SERIOUS internet users out there...
I'm often capped in the middle of the month because I actually USE my internet connection for work, Carryover of bandwidth means absolutely nothing to me, I pay for 3GB - i use 3GB, I buy another 3GB and use that too - I don't BUY 10GB for the simple reason that I WILL NOT end up using 10 GB in a month...
I'd rather it be cheaper and i'd buy more then have to pay MORE and get carryover which I'll never end up with...
And I'm pretty sure you serious users will agree with me on this one.
okay... seriously - for all you SERIOUS internet users out there...
I'm often capped in the middle of the month because I actually USE my internet connection for work, Carryover of bandwidth means absolutely nothing to me, I pay for 3GB - i use 3GB, I buy another 3GB and use that too - I don't BUY 10GB for the simple reason that I WILL NOT end up using 10 GB in a month...
I'd rather it be cheaper and i'd buy more then have to pay MORE and get carryover which I'll never end up with...
And I'm pretty sure you serious users will agree with me on this one.
This is only the case because bundles don't get cheaper per MB beyond 2GB.
Under 2GB it is better to buy twice as much as you need in one month and hope to carry it over for 60 days.
Well, sorry if am not a SERIOUS internet user! I have a 3GB account that I use at home and for my wifes bussiness. Most of the time thats more than enough and we forfeit a gig or so each month (the 1 gig account is never big enough). Other months we need more than 3 gigs and then I have start buying top-ups instead of using my otherwise accumulated unused bandwidth. So by being able to carry over unused bandwidth would not only save me money from not buying top-tups, but it is just SO much more convenient.
davemc
Executive Member
As a matter of principal: You have paid for it, why is it morally okay for it to "expire"? Where's your refund on the expired bits, or the ability to only pay for what you actually use?
I would love that - to pay for what I ACTUALLY use, I don't get it - if everyone used what they paid for - then what would be the problem then?...
is the entire market model based on the fact that everyone PROBABLY won't use what they paid for???
We should understand that ISP's either sell data OR Bandwidth.
But: the way they sell data is based on the fact that they are actually buying bandwidth and RESELLING it as Data. So they base their pricing and validity period of your data package on how much of their bandwidth you will use to download your data and how long you will access their network to do that.
So they know, within a 1 month timeframe, how many people will have access to their (the ISP's) bandwidth and for how long [based on the subscriber's line speed,] to download that data.
If caps carried over indefinitely, the ISPs could not provision suddenly enough bandwidth to cater for people suddenly trying to use up some of their cheap, accumulated data allowance. THat is why PREPAID carries over but is MORE EXPENSIVE.
If you want to save, don't buy more than you need. It's called a DATA CAP which means the maximum you can download in a month.
OR if you want carry over data, buy prepaid and pay more for the privilege.
Read the description of what you are buying. If you don't like it, buy something else or start your own business and sell us what we'd like to buy at the price you'd like to buy it.