 shollingPremium
join:2002-02-13
Hemet, CA
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 ·Verizon FiOS
| By the byte? No way! By the byte is a silly idea intended to force users into an AOL like walled garden. The real answer is to expect speed tiers to reflect usage level. No one that just emails and surfs the web signs up for a 10mb $60/mo Internet connection, and no one has a right to expect to download 200GB/mo over a $15/mo 768k connection. When someone is paying a premium for a 10-15mb connection the ISP has no right to tell them that they cannot use at least 50% of that advertised bandwidth unless they say up front that there is a xxx GB/mo cap. I'd go so far as to say that with dedicated services like DSL or FIOS that any cap is a consumer fraud.
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dlopez
join:2001-01-07
Miami, FL | Why do I get the feeling they want to raise there rate's? |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | said by dlopez:Why do I get the feeling they want to raise there rate's? REmove the BBR doom and gloom spin and you won't have that feeling.
If ANYONE is paying attention, it's PHONE that has been crying about how their bandwidth is used and not cable. Phone didn't start crying about how their bandwidth and how it was used and by who until about the same time they decided they wanted to price their DSL at around the $12.99 starting point.. and to make it worse and more clear what is happening, they priced it that low in an attempt to take customers from cable..
So, in the process of all of this, telephone, as usual, plays dirty pool and then cries about it.
Cable, at least the big boy Comcast, has not raised it's pricing point in several years on HSI. Do they boot the top gross offenders? Yup.. do those people make noise? Yup! Do they KNOW that they downloaded a lot? Sure.. Do they care? Nope.. and do other customers who just want a stable connection for the money they pay for care that gross offenders are getting the boot? MOST do not even know, and wouldn't care.
Price hikes? Not likely... the phone company loves to throw in their customer controls, contracts, and 20 pages of terms and penalties... but a price hike? I doubt it.
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