I think there is good logic in what you say. I think Internet connectivity will be much different in 10 years than today. Slightly different but maybe close example. In 1999 I paid $40.00/mo for 250M / 3g trans / several email accounts hosting. Today I can get tons more than I hope to use for only $5.00/mo. What will shared hosting cost 5 or 6 years from now. Will there even be shared hosting. Maybe everyone will have a VPS for $5.00/mo with much better tools. The way things are going you might have a go anywhere card or appliance that has a persistive Internet connection for only $10.00/mo in 5 to 10 years. Back to the future ...ur reality! Keith Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:40:50PM -0700, JT Moree wrote: > > I just signed up for phone, dsl, and wireless. being new in town I have > none of these yet (locally). I got the 21.99 for life package for 24 > months and beyond. They say it will remain that way forever but I > haven't seen any fine print yet. There seems to be some skepticism about "21.99 for life" that is misplaced if you think about it. $21.99 wouldn't have been out of the ballpark for premium dial-up service 10 years ago. And that's in 1996 dollars. It's Moore's Law, slightly modified. They're not going to lose money on you down the road. This is like mobile phones. I'm with T-Mobile. A while back they called me and offered to upgrade my contract. More minutes for less money. I asked various questions, like would I have to extend my contract? Nope. Similar questions were answered the same way. I accepted and it all turned out to be true. I pay less and get more. The mobile phone market is fiercly competitive, and they merely offered me the going rates to keep me as a happy customer. The alternative is to keep gouging me (as of today, not 2 years ago) and risk losing me when I switch to another carrier. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss - - - - - - - Keith Smith - - - - - - - http://travelingcheese.com/search_engine/increase-search-engine-traffic.html - - - - - - - --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.