According toBloomberg,Amazon is in talks with several carriers, trying to negotiate the lowest price.
One is to make it even harder to quit its monthly subscription.
The other is to collect even more data about you.
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Amazon also stores your photo library and knows what TV shows and movies you watch on Prime Video.
If you have a Ring doorbell camera, it ishappy to give the footage to the copswithout a warrant.
According toBloomberg, Amazon may charge $10 per month or bundle the service into Prime.
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In dollars, that’s cheap.
But in all other terms, it’s a very expensive price to pay.
We paid for phone calls and extra for long-distance calls.
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We used to pay for SMS services.
Partly, this happened because we got the same services, free, over the internet.
International calls were replaced by Skype.
Regular voice calls went the same way, or we just stopped making phone calls altogether.
SMS messages were replaced by iMessage and WhatsApp, and so on.
Might mobile data go the same way?
But each of those companies would have their own agenda when it comes to your data.
