KoolMoe
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Re: Caps need to be published for competitive reasons
Generally agree. But if providers not only published their caps but also had a 'your bandwidth usage this month' meters, you know many folks would push it to the bare limit. Providers may pick a random number, say 10gb, to trigger a warning but that doesn't mean that everyone doing 9.9gb is ok...
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| said by KoolMoe  :Generally agree. But if providers not only published their caps but also had a 'your bandwidth usage this month' meters, you know many folks would push it to the bare limit. The people who would push it to the limit would only be the ones currently pushing it beyond the limit.
If you only surf, download say 2-3 gigs a month, then why would you suddenly go on a tear and "push it to the limit" if they told you the cap was 50 gigs a month?
I suspect providing the tools would allow people more control over their usage and would enable competition. I think this is the real reason they don't want to reveal the "invisible" caps.
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