Instead of looking at what the "average" or "median" user's usage, it would be more useful to look at the number of users that go over 200MB once or more in a contract period (say 12 months), how often they go over, and by how much. Then among those, find the number of users that would end up paying more under a tiered plan of $15/200MB with their usage pattern over that 12 months, and see what percentage of users this is.
Looking at individual months is misleading. I think most user's usage fluctuates quite a bit.
I suspect it's even worse than it looks, actually. Under a $15/200MB plan, even if you went under 200MB every other month, if one month out of the year you get up to around 2600MB you might as well have had an unlimited plan the whole time. It would cost the same, and at least then you'd be having something closer to the experience the advertisements say you'll be having.
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Looking at individual months is misleading. I think most user's usage fluctuates quite a bit.
I suspect it's even worse than it looks, actually. Under a $15/200MB plan, even if you went under 200MB every other month, if one month out of the year you get up to around 2600MB you might as well have had an unlimited plan the whole time. It would cost the same, and at least then you'd be having something closer to the experience the advertisements say you'll be having.
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