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data token question
Right now I have 164.3 GB data tokens in total that I have been building every month with 25 GB data token sometime more. Is there a limited amount?
Hello Ryan,
Thank you for posting and starting an interesting discussion. To put things to rest, I floated your question to our top tech person and he confirmed that only ~7% of our subscribers are on the 50 GB plan, so there's not much market demand for a higher plan. Not so say we won't ever roll out new plans, but should that be in the works and we're allowed to annouce any new plans, you'll hear about it.
-Liz
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maratsade wrote:I don't think so, but keep in mind that if you ever cancel and still have tokens, the tokens have no value, so you don't get any money back.
Thanks for the note. :)
I just wanted to post that I've stopped purchasing data token per month until I only have around 50 GB data token left. Right now is at around 132.9 GB left. I really have purchased about 16 of 25 GB data token and that is 400 GB in total (16 x 75 = 1200 worth) under this 50 GB service data plan since last year in Feburary 2020.
HughesNet does support this. I really wonder why HughesNet does not offer more than 50 GB data service plan for Residential subscribers yet.
Ryan11433 wrote:I really wonder why HughesNet does not offer more than 50 GB data service plan for Residential subscribers yet.
System capacity is such that it can't support it, and the only way they can expand capacity is by sending up another bird.
A few people buying and using data tokens on a regular basis doesn't have the same effect on the system as tens of thousands of subscribers taking advantage of a larger data plan.
GabeU wrote:
A few people buying and using data tokens on a regular basis doesn't have the same effect on the system as tens of thousands of subscribers taking advantage of a larger data plan.What do you mean that it does not have same effect on the system?
Ryan11433 wrote:
GabeU wrote:
A few people buying and using data tokens on a regular basis doesn't have the same effect on the system as tens of thousands of subscribers taking advantage of a larger data plan.What do you mean that it does not have same effect on the system?
The impact on the system from a few people buying and using data tokens is a drop in the bucket compared to what the impact would be from thousands, if not tens of thousands of people buying and using larger data plans.
I always use roads as an analogy. Say a road has a capacity of 20,000 cars per hour before it starts to experience a slowdown. If traffic is generally under or sticks to that capacity, even a few extra cars every now and then (people using data tokens) isn't going to effect it much. But if there is all of a sudden 30,000 cars per hour (larger plans being offered) trying to go down the road, traffic would slow down considerably. That's what would happen with the system by adding larger data plans, as it's likely that a lot of people would upgrade to them. The larger the plans offered, the greater the impact and the slower the service would be.
