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Re:Ask HN: What business service would you pay $100/mo for by j_s on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:21PM (#14678229)
I have two legacy unlimited Verizon lines (no throttling but they kick you off permanently if you go over 200GB/month/line). It's more like $100 for the plan (I think this can be slightly cheaper) + another $65 each for the two lines.

If anyone is willing to pay a reasonable fee for transfer of liability I am looking to switch to Google Fi with two lines for about $35/month + pay-as-you-use data.

On eBay there are all kids of "unlimited data" hotspots for $50 to start + $100/month; I don't know how these people can afford to do it. (Also ones for $5/month somehow but that's even harder to understand.)

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=unlimited+data

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Re:Ask HN: What business service would you pay $100/mo for by imjustsaying on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:29PM (#14678270)
>unlimited

Am I the only one who's really bothered when telecoms claim unlimited data then intentionally implement artificial limits on every aspect of that data?

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Re:Ask HN: What business service would you pay $100/mo for by tluyben2 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:14PM (#14678483)
No, but the masses are not complaining. It is as it is most people think I guess. I find it false advertising but apparently not false enough to be illegal. What I find more annoying though that they don't have plans for people who actually want to pay. If I want a subscription for 5TB/month, why can't I pay (as in reasonable, so like it works for other things; if you buy a lot it gets cheaper, not crazy expensive flatrate per mb as it is now) for it even if I want to? I mean I get 25gb for E29/mo here; why can't I just pay E100 for 100gb?

(Also the companies are too big; with my local internet provider, a small company, I made a deal that if I pay 1 year in advance for the most expensive sub, they would ignore my usage. Fine with them.)

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