The Proposed Caps On Bandwidth
The Proposed Caps On Bandwidth are bullshite!
Hat tip to The EFF. Did you know that: “the wholesale price to Time Warner for 40gb for a month amounts to about $3.”
“While the cable industry suggests the move is to recoup costs incurred by heavy users, the low caps they’ve got planned (ranging from 5 to 40GB) are raising a lot of eyebrows.”
Once again new information emerges regarding Time Warner’s about-to-be-implemented overage charges for bandwidth consumption. I’ve found one comment of maximum interest;
“If it’s pay-by-transfer-amount with neutrality, or “unlimited” transfer with discrimination (i.e. filtering by traffic content or destination), then the per-gig pricing is the lesser evil.
The ridiculously low caps they’re talking about, however, could amount to a big rate hike for even moderate users.
I think what we’re seeing here is the ISPs trying to exhaust all alternatives to wring more money out of subscribers without spending on upgrades. Only when they reach the point of diminishing returns on these tactics - or face competition, whichever comes first - will they finally resort to upgrading the infrastructure for more capacity.”
I continue to wonder why the solution is so amazingly simple yet no one is willing to take care of the infrastructure. Oh, sorry, that’s right - its about money… yours and mine. They think the well will never run dry. Obviously they’re not paying attention to the economic news.
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