1 edit | Frontier here I come! Wait.... It doesn't matter to me, I live in a Verizon FiOS area that is supposed to be sold to Frontier if the "big deal" ends up going through.....and if it does, I can't wait to see the 5GB cap! 
I say you can always vote with the mighty dollar....if you don't like it, go to someone else. Even if EVERY company decides to go metered, then go to the company that gives you the customer the best deal.
I have five options where I live:
1. Verizon FiOS/DSL
2. Comcast
3. Clearwire
4. Directway
5. Other Cellular
We will see....if Verizon tries to screw me...then I will go elsewhere...:) | |
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 | | |  Re: Frontier here I come! Wait....
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ | How soon before cable companies... start charging you by the minute to watch TV?
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| | It better be an extremely high cap If the telco's are concerned about the miniscule percentage of users that hog bandwidth, the cap should only affect those users. To impact only those users, the cap would have to be a matter of terabytes, not hundreds of gigabytes.
On FIOS, you could hit 500 GB in around 3 days. If they EVER dreamed of making the cap that low, and that easy to hit quickly.... that would be a travesty, a disgrace, unforgiveable, irresponsible, unreasonable, impractical, infuriating, disasterous, etc. etc. That would be BAD BAD BAD. | |
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| | Verizon: Metered Broadband Is Coming Per byte billing would be too much to hope for in Canada. User based billing is set to come into effect soon meaning the people who use next to no bandwidth still pay the same but the people who go over low set caps get hammered for overuse fees at an exorbitant rate. | |
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| | Verizon still needs to combat other ISP I don't see what's the point of making the Internet multimedia rich.
I'm sure there has to be a limit before the start charging you because that's ridiculous...
Faster speeds don't mean shit if you're going to make users pay for byte. This is a step backwards, I hope IE 8 still have the option to not download multimedia content.
I don't think VZ should be quick to do this because they need to enter these markets still. If they do that they will only delay their own growth. | |
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|  batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
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| Re: Verizon still needs to combat other ISP said by mach_six:I don't think VZ should be quick to do this because they need to enter these markets still. If they do that they will only delay their own growth. That is the reason behind metered billing for internet. CATV wants to sell pay per view that is not part of the internet. With unlimited internet their pay per view will suffer. | |
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| | Greedy Bastards Well I guess its time to say "Bye 20/20 mbps (1 GB cap) and Hello 14.4kbps dialup (Unilimited ) connection" Goodluck watching HD over dialup
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