Re: [tlug] A place to connect my laptop

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

emiddleton@example.com writes:

 > I guess because you would have expected

*You* might, but ...

 > it to have set of alarm bells at the telephone company.  A
 > telephone company is not an unsophisticated user with limited
 > technical and legal resources.  It should be obvious to them that
 > no reasonable person is consciously going to make that kind of
 > usage of a mobile phone Internet service, which means it is either
 > serious user error, fraud or an accounting mistake.  You would hope
 > that even if they weren't checking for user errors they would be
 > proactively checking for fraud or system errors.

The joshiki is that there is a social contract: the little guys bear a
huge amount of risk by comparison to other countries, while the big
boys share the profits when the profits are positive.  During the high
growth years this worked; now that Japan has entered the "zero-sum
society" phase, the big dawgs are eating the little dogs (or at least
their lunches) -- but progress on mitigating risk of people with
average levels of resources or below is only now starting to be made.

It just ain't right, but it's the way it (all too often) is.