Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| uk has a dwindling population.. When you actually talk about the growing customer base of the Americas, and Asia.. the metrics work much better.. and technology is available to grow the internet significantly with established technologies such as fiber and concentrated switching centers. Still, providers don't really stress conservation mostly when they can get away with abusing FAP policies (fair access policies).. if they did they would give customers tools to monitor how much bandwidth they actually use per day, week, month, year, etc.. ISP'S certainly have the data-- if they want to empower customers to conserve they need to make the metrics available as an account tool..even if there isn't really a hard limit in unlimited. I doubt many would use the tool to chew up MORE bandwidth  would they?
Right now in the USA that is simply unnecessary.. as bandwidth speeds are not really where they should be.. so conservation is already built into the system.. with sub 10megabits speed caps (for the majority of customers here) and upload caps which are pitiful.. right now the costly part of metrics are the TRANSMITTAL (rather than reception), distance and time as a major factor in costs (number of hops,number packets, and speed/latency/prioritization).
Honestly, I think the UK is getting off light... other European nations are pushing ahead with massive multi-billion dollar/euro plans to light fiber across the map with oodles of bandwidth for a pittance (France, Germany, and the nordic lands-- Netherlands, Sweden, Holland, etc).. Why doesn't it cost less in the UK? Could be a reason the population is sinking..
Companies need to start to think BIG in their infrastructure plans or pack it in.. there is no such thing as TOO much bandwidth.. people want an internet to do video the same way it does voice, and web pages.. that is "instant gratification" and QOS.. this will need to make a sea change in the way the networks brought to scale. |
