"John Navas" wrote:
>
> The price point for handset (not tethered) data seems to be $10-20 per
> month. Tethered data seems likely to stay at a premium over wired
> broadband, $40-80 per month.
>

That's a rather big range. At $80 it will remain a niche market--a shrinking
market if WiFi coverage gets larger.

In addition, the "must have a plan" thing is getting old. Like Stephan
wrote, I also encounter WiFi, or wired Ethernet, in most of my business
traveling. There is no way I'll be willing to pay $80 a month for the few
times WiFi isn't available--not even $40 per month.

I would be willing to pay a fair price for occasional use, but not at the
per-megabyte rate (last I checked rates, anyway). Actually, I recently
turned down paying $9.95 for a day of WiFi usage at IAH airport (Houston).
Considering I was only there for a few hours, had just flown in from (and
was headed to) an airport that had free WiFi, and would have had to supply
CC and other info over the apparently unsecured WLAN I didn't think it was
worth it. Ironically Sprint ran that WiFi service--and it was slower than
heck (there was some non-subscription access).


--
Mike