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ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan

Posted by Soulskill on from the market-pressure-on-the-big-boys dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Earlier today FreedomPop, a telecom company headquartered in Los Angeles, announced its plans to launch a very low cost home broadband plan for extremely low-intensity users, with 1GB monthly for free. Clearly this is much lower than an average U.S. home broadband usage, which is between 24 and 28 gigs per month. The 1GB of free Internet is basically a teaser; the company aims to disrupt the cable and DSL business with its 10GB for $10 plan which is extendable by paying $5 for each additional GB beyond 10."

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  1. Model cycling by nycsubway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hopefully the home ISP market won't follow the cyclic model of the cell phone industry. With cell phone data, first you paid by the kB, then they introduced unlimited data plans, then they capped the limits and you paid by the GB, now they're going back to unlimited data plans. I'd prefer the home ISPs to not do that. They've always been unlimited (within reason) so I'd wouldn't like to see some small company changing the model for the industry.

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  2. Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted by PhxBlue · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Highly disruptive. Sure. Whatever.

    Given my bandwidth usage, I'd have to pay about $1,000 a month to get what I have now for about $70. I'm not seeing what's "highly disruptive" about that.

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  3. Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted by alen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yeah, but lots of people like my inlaws who don't use too much will jump on this if it costs them $20 or $30 a month

    if i use less than 1GB per month on my iphone i'm sure there are lots of people who use the same on their home internet