Perspectives from David Pogue (New York Times) and Stacy Higginbotham (Gigaom) are a good starting point to understanding what data caps, pricing tiers, and tethering charges imply about the state of wireless competition (less than thriving) and profit expectations of a big carrier (“greedy”). The money quote from Pogue after the jump:
Here’s Pogue on the $20 tethering charge AT&T demands for tethering your laptop to an iPhone:
They show AT&T acting much more the way you’d expect a cell carrier to: like a big greedy monolithic corporation.
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