No mobile user needs 1.5gig speeds.
So a structured pricing plan and speed capped plans make sense.
Edit: I refer to mobile plans not home broadband plans, but those could also have levels as do our fixed line services.
So people can have unlimited data for £15 per month at 10meg for example. Far more sufficient for anything a mobile user needs.
Then you go into the 100meg and unrestricted levels because a user WANTS those speeds, but doesn't NEED those speeds. The reality is they'd never really use anything more than 5-10meg at any get given time as a mobile user, and that's very generous.
So those who WANT more should pay more for the extra unused/unwarranted speeds/bandwidth for no reason other than because they can.
What about those people who are PAYING full price for a certain speed and not getting it!!
Three did something last January which cut my speeds to shreds. I've been up to the CEO's office who basically won't do any thing about it, blaming the distance between me and the mast (which has not changed for the previous 18 months of the contract!!).
I even reported it to Ofcom to run some tests on where the extra noise was actually coming from and they fobbed me off with non-sense as well. They are basically a toothless tiger, do a lot of roaring and shouting about what they might do about something, but do nothing.
I was told by an insider that Three and EE have had to do some adjustments due to interference on Band 3 and it is Band 3 I have noticed the huge drop in actual signal and lots of noise appear on it literally over a 24 hour period.
A local mast was physically off-line due to an issue on the antennae, for over a month. Every-time I spoke to Three they blamed everything and everyone but the actual problem. I even drove to the mast and took readings on CellMapper and NSG, proving that this particular mast was dead! Yet Three kept going over the same things, get the router in front of you, reboot the router, take out the SIM card and reseat it, after literally hundreds of times doing the same thing and them still refusing to transfer your call to someone who can help you. It is soul destroying!! Yet they still manage to take the direct debit from us all every month and we have to pay them to get out of the contract early!
Fair enough I don't need the speed all the time, but I do like to grab alternative operating systems to test and they are a couple of GB. Why shouldn't I be allowed to use full speed for a few minutes to download updates and other files quickly so I don't have to wait hours for it to download at a capped 10mbps.
It is really sad that towns and cities are getting these 5G upgrades and ability to reach great speeds when they really don't need it due to having fibre to premises and high speed WiFi all around them. Whereas rural people haven't got good WiFi and only have crumbs of what the main mobile operators allow us to have, despite paying the same price!!