Just noticed that AT&T is subsidizing some more laptops in order to charge $60/month for their service. This isn't necessarily a great deal. Plus, you could run into paying exorbitant fees for data overage, which is appropriately satirized on this site. Check out some of the initial comments from this ArsTechnica article about the kill-switch on upcoming subsidized laptops from Ericsson.
While not paying your bill should cause some sort of limits on your connectivity, the obfuscation of the charges for exceeding your bandwidth should be a crime (a measly 5GB??). Yet again another example of a company getting over on folks who want/need to get on board with this technology, but get suckered into a raw deal. Yes, they should do their homework, but if you're signing this contract, do you really think they even know they should do any homework?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Subsidizing Laptops & Capping Data
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