One of the great things about living in Taiwan is the all you can eat data packages. I pay $33USD for an almost all you can eat plan that give me 3.5G or 3.6 Mps. It looks like the Taiwanese Carriers are getting greedy and are pushing the National Communications Commission (NCC) to adopt differential charge rates based on use volume to replace the current uniform pricing. They are justifying the push because mobile Internet-access capacity is likely to catch up with fast growing demand due to increasing use of smartphones and tablets.
They argue that uniform pricing without limits to use volume has resulted in an unreasonable situation where heavy users of mobile Internet services – 2% of all users – occupy almost 50% of the bandwidth available. Taiwanese Carriers already offer pricing packages at various GB and corresponding rates. This move is simply an attempt to get rid of all you can eat data packages that they are required to offer. Looks like the greed of the western carriers has caught on over here in Taiwan. Lets hope they don’t win, as a member of the 2% (that pay’s a bit extra when I exceed 2GB) I think the system isn’t broken! I hope they don’t try to fix it!
Via Digitimes
