Telecom Spend Trends A Blog About Telecom Expense Management and Telecom Life Cycle Management

29Feb/080

The joys of following cell phone rate trends!

In the past two weeks, all of the major carriers decided on some form of the all-you-can-eat plan, which commoditizes cellular usage to some extent. This decision goes one step further in the wireless sector's inevitable march to being another set of dumb pipes just like cable and landline telecom. The cable providers will fight this, since it's hard to make money when you can't justify value-added services. But at the same time, it's really hard to be both an infrastructure provider and a content provider at the same time. (This is why great content creators like Electronic Arts aren't in charge of the Internets.) So, how good are each of the plans that came out this week? Let's take a look at each one.