Different Internet Packages for a Mobile Phone
Something I have been wondering about today is why are there different internet packages for your mobile phone. Like why is it that when I got my Android I had to ditch my BlackBerry internet data plan and get a Google internet data plan (which is $5 more a month for some reason). Shouldn't access to the internet over a mobile phone just be that... a door to the internet? And doesn't T-Mobile really facilitate it all? So what am I paying for?
Is this like the early days of the internet where you were on CompuServ or AOL? And then slowly people realized that it didn't really matter what network you were on. You just needed to be on.
So why do I need a specific Google or BlackBerry plan?? I just need a TCP/IP connection to the internet!
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