| To: Selectric II who wrote (29962) | 7/25/2024 11:00:13 PM | | From: Maurice Winn | | | | I wrote at least a decade ago that Apple should buy Globalstar, fire the ineffectual management and build the world's biggest telecommunications system. Starlink is at a lower altitude so Applelink would have a larger diameter.
But they'd need to learn about Wacky Wireless free megabytes while the system gets filled with millions and billions of happy users. No stupid arpu monthly charges. Users would buy a $10 or more credit that doesn't expire until the megabytes are used, whether it's one second, one minute, one hour, one day, one month, one year, or one decade.
Initially make megabytes 0.0000 cents per megabyte. As the system fills, the price would be increased to balance supply and demand. That way the system would always be available for another user to connect if their need was great enough such as a Mayday call from an airliner. People filling in time watching movie re runs would stop using the service until the price went back to a low enough price.
People who want fixed monthly charges, or a fixed price per megabyte/gigabyte could have those options and avoid peak megabyte prices.
Consumer surplus would be huge and profits would be vast as millions and billions of people and devices would gobble gigabytes galore.
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| To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (29964) | 7/29/2024 2:53:30 AM | | From: Maurice Winn | | | | Hi GG. That looks like another monthly plan arpu system. Those links didn't lead me to buying megabytes that don't expire.
Maybe what I've described for quarter of a century is hidden there somewhere but I couldn't find it.
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| To: Maurice Winn who wrote (29965) | 7/29/2024 12:18:03 PM | | From: Geoff Goodfellow | | | | | mq, the buying of megabytes at $2.10 that don't expire (at QCI/QoS 8 premium data level that VZW postpaid customers get) is summarily effectuated in their MobileX iOS/Android App -- which you probably can't dl as the service is (presently) only available in the US. |
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| To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (29968) | 7/30/2024 12:37:38 AM | | From: Maurice Winn | | | | $2 per gigabyte for terrestrial service is at least on the right planet but is absurdly high. And I bet you have to buy more each month in the usual arpu "plan".
These days fibre can't reach nearly everywhere and satellites can fill in the outback at low cost.
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| To: Maurice Winn who wrote (29969) | 7/30/2024 9:04:08 AM | | From: Geoff Goodfellow | | | | yours truly ain't on no usual arpu "plan" - yours truly is on the MobileX PERSONALIZED ACCESS AI-guided usage "plan" that has the MobileX Data Forecaster calculating how much data yours truly needs based on a a choice of dollars, data or average monthly data usage estimations -AND- any data yours truly gets/buys based on the Data Forecaster estimations or top-up's is never "lost"/"goes away"/"zeroed out" at end of the month/ billing cycle. as a result, yours truly "bill" has been around $5/month :)
next time your in the US you oughta get a local US # and check it out! |
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| To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (29970) | 7/30/2024 5:45:40 PM | | From: Maurice Winn | | | | That's complex mumbo jumbo linear regression analysis of probabilistic future data consumption for your monthly plan/billing cycle.
I prefer no plan or billing cycle or the other mumbo jumbo. Just gimme data access for the amount of data I've paid for. I'll buy more if I ever run low.
Like buying tomatoes at a shop. I don't have a plan, billing cycle or predicted future tomato consumption. I choose how many tomatoes to buy and pay for them. The proprietor hands over said tomatoes.
In New Zealand, a petrol company Z Energy introduced such a purchasing method a few years ago. I bought 1000 litres for $2.25 per litre. I could then take delivery at any of their petrol stations. No monthly plan or billing cycle.
That was a tax avoidance business and not really a good economic design because delivery costs and competition mean prices should vary by location and time. But the tax advantage was large so it was a good method for them and me.
Wacky Wireless has a similar problem with time and location. Sometimes satellites or base stations will be overloaded and higher prices are needed to stop people using data.
Wacky Wireless would show the current price per megabyte which would be high when crowded and low or free when empty.
Either way, no billing cycle or monthly plan is needed. Just pay some amount, then use data until you run out, then buy some more.
People who want a fixed fee per month with all you can eat could have that too. But they would be charged a high price to reflect their special service. Dumb people pay high prices. But it would still be lower than competing monthly/billing cycle eat all you like services and they'd actually get service instead of busy signals/disconnections.
This is a super sophisticated concept that regular humans can't comprehend so it's not for everyone. The mighty rocket scientist brains of Globalstar couldn't grok it so chose bankruptcy instead, twice. Now about to go bust for the third time.
Motorola beat me to the idea by a couple of years and patented variable pricing per minute in 1993, so that patent expired long ago. I was surprised such an obvious idea is patentable but apparently the bar is very low for "obvious".
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