According to the documentation, they area only offering unlimited in areas where they know the antenna covering that area isn’t overloaded. I’d be curious to know how much capacity they have per antenna. I thought I read it somewhere a while back but haven’t followed up on it.
Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 9:26 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Excede changing to "Virtually Unlimited" in certain areas What happens when customers actually start using several times their current amount though? They do only have a finite amount of available bandwidth after all - will their jitter go through the roof and voice become unusable? Will speeds drop dramatically? -Jason On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af...@kwisp.com');>> wrote: That’s something like 10 times their current limit. If true, that’s a big change. If they get all the <150GB/mo customers and we only get the >150GB ones, that’s probably bad for us and good for them. I guess it comes down to marketing. If they can convince people it’s “virtually unlimited”, then we lose one of the 2 selling points we have against satellite (the other being gaming). If we can convince people there’s a risk they will go over and get a “talking to” whatever that entails, then we win. That argument is easier to make against cellular, where people want a fixed price and dread getting a $1000 cellphone bill even if they never even approach their data cap, just the uncertainty is a big negative. Not sure how much they would dread a “talking to”. From: Rory Conaway Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 9:54 AM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Excede changing to "Virtually Unlimited" in certain areas If you exceed 150GB, which nobody ever does according to their literature, then they will have a talk with you because 150GB is such a huge amount according to their literature. They did say they are putting up another satellite in 2016 which probably covers the areas they missed with the existing satellite. They are also offering voice for $10 per month. Rory Conaway Triad Wireless 4226 S. 37th Street Phoenix, Az. 85040 602-426-0542 www.triadwireless.net<http://www.triadwireless.net> r...@triadwireless.net<mailto:r...@triadwireless.net>
