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Re: NextG Mobile Speeds

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:26
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Mike Rofone wrote

> As an update, the tests that I conducted  as well
> as some browsing consumed 45 megs of data.

> I have a 500 meg data pack. Based on this, at nearly 10 percent of
> my monthly allowance, the data would be consumed in a day or so.

> If I was relying on this as my sole internet service
> I'd have to pay at least $49 for the 3 gig pack.
> And even then I doubt that it'd be enough.

Thats silly, you wont presumably be doing those tests very often.

> I haven't checked and therefore I don't know, but you'd
> hope that the data packs for the USB modems that
> people use to connect to NextG would be better value.

They presumably arent stupid enough to do that sort of test all the time. 
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