I'm not particularly happy with my choice of wireless providers as there is no LTE in my area and there haven't been any improvements to my service in the past six month despite enormous amounts of advertising telling me how good the service is. Locally Verizon would be the better technical choice, but I find the company difficult to deal with...
and now there is this...
One has to question a company that charges over $1,000 a year for service and sells information about me to other customers. Other companies probably also do it, but it seems wrong. Just who is your customer and do you respect them?
I'm also disturbed by the business models of Facebook, Google and Twitter where you are the product. The end user is not the real customer, but merely something that generates information that can be sold. You are a cash crop. There is no such thing as "free". One wonders how much people would pay for these services if the model was the end user being the customer. And would the services work better for the end user?
I've done some surveys and found most people would not pay very much. For Facebook it works out to pennies per month and Google is a few dollars per month ... not as much as you are worth as a cash crop, so I wouldn't expect much of a change.
For what its worth I could imagine paying $10 to $15 a month for a "clean" Google and $0 a month for a clean Twitter or Facebook. What would you pay?
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