sonson.org » Technical Bits http://www.sonson.org my perfect hiding place Mon, 17 May 2010 01:29:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 When access to data feels like a penalty http://www.sonson.org/2007/10/31/when-access-to-data-feels-like-a-penalty/ http://www.sonson.org/2007/10/31/when-access-to-data-feels-like-a-penalty/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:58:12 +0000 sonson http://www.sonson.org/2007/10/31/when-access-to-data-feels-like-a-penalty/ I was checking out Rogers’ data plan for my phone yesterday.

Rogers Mobile Internet Plan

With a data plan, 1kb of data costs $5/5000 kb = $0.001/kb

Without a data plan, 1kb of data costs $0.05/kb

Um.. you mean Rogers is charging 50 times more for each kb if I don’t subscribe to their data plan?

To me, it feels like I am being penalized for accessing data without a data plan.

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On top of that, I also created two (category) RSS feeds to allow readers to subscribe to entries in different languages.

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