The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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So the ASA doesn't like a la carte pricing for broadcast video, but love a la carte pricing for data.
They want to bill data like a utility, but want to put a baseline price for everyone with excess usage charges rather than a flat per MB rate.
Sounds to me like they want everyone to stuff their bottomline rather than fix any real issues. If they're so concerned about Granny subsidizing Junior, they should charge by the MB with no fixed monthly fee rather than this tiered model which only serves to increase their net income. That way, everyone is charged per usage and those who use little pay little, those who use more pay more.
If they want more money for "new features", what "new features" are they talking about, since this is the open Internet we're talking about?
At the end of the day, their idea that they should be able to charge a metered rate for an unlimited commodity, which is throughput, NOT bandwidth, is ridiculous. They complain about bandwidth hogs, but charge for throughput. Their argument makes no sense.