Comments on: iPhone 4 – Without Unlimited Data Plans Is It Worthless?

By: David

David — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:05:08 +0000

Your right Bill. I’ve thought of that myself which is why I’ve been documenting my hunt for wifi hotspots. Long Island happens to be very far ahead of the rest of the country because of Long Islands very own, Cablevision. Cablevision is attempting to blanket the whole Island in Wifi and it might only be another 5 years before they are done. I don’t know of any other city in the country attempting this. Kind of cements Steve Jobs reputation as a visionary. In the future we won’t need these networks because wifi will be everywhere.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:03:46 +0000

Metered usage is a provider’s dream, so it’s no surprise that ATT is dropping their unlimited plans. They claim that a small minority of users are using all the bandwidth, so most current subscribers won’t be affected or should benefit from less congestion. With the new phone there will be a larger demand for bandwidth and I do think it will be crippled to some extent without unlimited data plans. However, I see this only as a temporary problem. Once wi-fi becomes ubiquitous we’ll all be laughing about the days when we used to need data (and probably even phone) plans.