{"id":1884,"date":"2010-06-14T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2010-06-14T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T21:07:47","slug":"82-76-for-1-7-gigabytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"$82.76 for 1.7 gigabytes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would post one of my wireless bills from Sprint to show how nuts things are here in the US internet-connection wise.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on their only wireless plan that offers 5 gigabytes of bandwidth a month. Anything past that&#8230; well, they will just charge you a &#8220;small .05 cent overage fee&#8221; per megabyte.<\/p>\n<p>So every month I keep a log for that device, and I see during that particular month I updated two mac laptops through the OS&#8217; built-in system update, downloaded 20 YouTube videos, grabbed 28 free iTunes music downloads, 30 free iTunes apps, and 30 Amazon music downloads. That&#8217;s all I did on that one device. No other surfing, video, uploading, downloading&#8230; nada.<\/p>\n<p>My overage fee? $82.76. For a grand total of $151.93 for <em>one month<\/em> of <em>highly restrained<\/em> internet use.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/4701267188\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"$82.76 for 1.7 gigs?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4002\/4701267188_e4f18ff310.jpg?resize=386%2C500\" alt=\"$82.76 for 1.7 gigs?\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">$82.76 for 1.7 gigs?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wanna make money? Get into the ISP\/bandwidth business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would post one of my wireless bills from Sprint to show how nuts things are here in the US internet-connection wise. I&#8217;m on their only wireless plan that offers 5 gigabytes of bandwidth a month. Anything past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}