We all know Verizon’s new LTE network is going to kick ass. But how much is it going to cost?
The Washington Post‘s Cecilia Kang seems to be the source of a quote by Verizon Wireless’ Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch from CES:
The whole paradigm of how we sell devices into the public is changing. At the same time that we announced LTE, we announced an open development initiative where we encouraged third-party developers to deploy devices on our network.
Awesome. Meaning we can finally have wireless internet access that rivals the speeds other countries have been enjoying for years. Then he gets to the interesting part.
The problem we have today with flat-based usage is that you are trying to encourage customers to be efficient in use and applications but you are getting some people who are bandwidth hogs using gigabytes a month and they are paying something like megabytes a month. That isn’t long-term sustainable. Why should customers using an average amount of bandwidth be subsidizing bandwidth hogs?
Well Dick, it’s because I am a bandwidth hog and I enjoy being subsidized, ok?
