How about charging for services that actually cost something to provide? Charge whatever you think is reasonable for data coming from the towers. It costs a lot of money to put towers up, install back-haul data lines, and maintain them.
What is the cost to the cell phone providers to include GPS capabilities? Oh yeah... that's nothing, since that system is paid for by our taxes.
Charging for map downloads through the cellular network is fair game, but crippling the GPS so only a subscription application can receive coordinates is not.
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How about charging for services that actually cost something to provide? Charge whatever you think is reasonable for data coming from the towers. It costs a lot of money to put towers up, install back-haul data lines, and maintain them.
What is the cost to the cell phone providers to include GPS capabilities? Oh yeah... that's nothing, since that system is paid for by our taxes.
Charging for map downloads through the cellular network is fair game, but crippling the GPS so only a subscription application can receive coordinates is not.