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Originally Posted by fresh-popcorn
Wouldnt $5.00 per month be a fair amount to pay for UMA?
Heck we already paid for the hardware, plus we paid for broadband connection how much freaking more money does the cellular companies need to suck out of us for a unlicenced spectrum that they didnt need to put any more money into building out?
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The carrier point of view is they paid for their licensed spectrum and make revenue by selling airtime and minute packages. I no longer work for a carrier, but my bet is that the first packages come out in the $25-35 price point, as a competition to Vonage and the like. I guess some technology issues would need to be resolved such as e911, and cloning/ security issues. I also believe that the initial roll out's will be limited to home or business based wifi, not public hotspots....(except for maybe TMobile.)
My point is carriers are not going to implement it unless they can make money, the larger carriers are already gaining more customers each quarter than they really have the capacity to keep up with, so they will look to price these services based on revenue growth not subscriber growth.
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