pricing

ISPs Should Decide If They Provide a Utility or a Service

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:29:17 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Stacey Higginbotham
If carriers can find ways to sell services over their pipes, they may not find themselves in Congressional crosshairs, being forced to defend profit margins for transmitting a tiny amount of data. If they want to make consumers pay per byte, they need an answer for folks who want to know why delivering bytes for text messages are much more expensive than bytes for video messages.

Verizon, AT&T: Buy a Texting Plan and We Won't Rip You Off

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:13:22 -0400

Full article: Yahoo!
Jeff Bertolucci
Verizon Wireless and AT&T testimony before the Judiciary Committee to address allegations that wireless carriers are colluding to set prices for text messaging made it clear that occasional texters who don't want a texting plan are getting ripped off.

AT&T under Pressure to Cut Price Tag on iPhone's Data Plan

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:08:36 -0400

Full article: Dow Jones
Roger Cheng and Ben Charny
With pricing in the smartphone race heating up, AT&T has been slow to shift gears. The telecom giant has stubbornly kept unchanged the pricey data plans required for the Apple iPhone. The decision to hold pat comes as the industry increasingly addresses the downturn in consumer spending with lower priced service plans and phones.

Blocking or Metering: A False Choice

Holiday Shapiro — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:19:47 -0400

In this policy brief, Free Press demonstrates why the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to prohibit blocking by Internet service providers is unlikely to lead to a radical, industry-wide switch to metering.