Videotron Wants Content Providers to Pay > Someone has to pay

reply to insomniac84

Re: Someone has to pay

Honestly the best solution for business is to charge home users by the megabyte. This would shrink traffic down to a level where you wouldn't have to upgrade anything. (And they would be heavily profiting from piracy as that is the bulk of the traffic) But they introduced unlimited, so they are stuck with it.

If they were as smart, they would charge big bucks for 15mbit connections, but they aren't. In the end these big companies are screwing themselves. They are refusing to pass any costs to the home user(something they can do) and instead trying to charge someone else who has no relationship with the home user's ISP at all(which they should never be able to do). If the telecoms have to run with very low profit for a few years, oh well. They are responsible for the low broadband fees.

And what would this MB charge be? .10 cents per MB? If I have to pay 'by the bit', then I pay ONLY for bits I request. That means no ads, no spam, no popups, no nothing. I sure as hell wouldn't pay for traffic I didn't specifically request.

"I just the other day got...an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material"
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