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I got a mini dish for emergencies as I live in an area where natural disasters can occur.
My plan was to just keep it around just in case in a paused state and on occasional trips, or in case of emergencies id have it.
Then they stopped letting you pause it and charged $7.50 CAD/m to keep it in standby, but it came with unlimited low speed, but enough to do emails or browse websites. Kinda shitty but okay, having data always working wasnt terrible for the $7.50, and could even toss it in car for road trips where there's bad internet for music streaming.
Then a couple weeks ago, they emailed saying its going to $15/m and it would no longer work while in motion.
Fuck that. I canceled.
Its definitely to juice the IPO revenue numbers.
Edit: oh, and the free pausing, to paid standby to the price increase on standby was all in under a year.