Per MB Broadband
⊆ June 5th, 2008 by Daymon | ˜ 3 Comments »It’s coming, like it or not. Soon Internet service providers will be charging you for everything you download on the Internet by the MB ( megabyte). In the same way phone companies have charged us by the minute for long distance, we’ll soon be paying per megabyte.
Now, those of you who don’t spend a lot of time downloading things may think this sounds like a good deal. It’s not. While you may be thinking if you don’t download a lot of media it’s going to work to your advantage. Think again. You will be getting charged for each web page you visit, because you have to download the page. In other words, you’ll pay to surf.
Wait, it gets worse. You would think one could use X amount of megabytes and get charged for whatever you use. Not so. Take Verizon Wireless for example. There are two wireless Internet plans to choose from, and both charge by the megabyte, but plans start at 50 MB per month for $39.99.
To put things in perspective, think about the iPod. The cheapest iPod you can get has only 1GB of memory. How long does it take you to fill up that 1 GB? Here’s where it gets ugly for those who didn’t already know. 1GB is equal to 1,000 MB! That’s right! 1,000 MB, and Verizon is of course charging $39.99 for a basic plan which allows you only 50MB per month.
Ok, so the Verizon example is based on wireless Internet access which in a way makes sense, but Time Warner is testing per megabyte Internet service for home use in Texas!!!!!! Not wireless access. If one company does it, they will all start doing it. As it is, the United States might as well be a third world country in terms of broadband access, and price. Broadband is much cheaper, and sometimes free and more widely available in almost all other modernized countries.
