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Beverly Hills, CA | reply to Warez_Zealot
Re: Perhaps if they offered a two tiered model..... NZ and Au do charge by the gigabyte, but they have capped plans as well, just not that same as the North American ones. What they do over there is slow your internet down when you exceed your data limit for the month.
Bandwidth costs in Au/NZ are nearly 100X more than what you would pay for it in the US, primarily because of the fact that most of the bandwidth is controlled by a monopoly, or duopoly, and of course the bulk of the data is overseas, and therefore run through expensive underwater fiber/fibre.
That being said though they have access to pretty innovative technology such as ADSL2+/Annex M and most people can get 8Mbps dsl even in rural areas. So it doesn't necessarily halt innovation, but can actually drive it.
Compare that to say a place like the GTA in Canada. You'd be lucky if you could even get 5mbps DSL, with most people syncing at 3mbps...if lucky. And don't even start about the oversold Cable (Rogers) where they throttle everything including torrents,voip, so the extra "bandwidth" is a mute point. Of course they also have invisible caps, which Bell Sympatico also now openly admits (check out their plans). Also no residential FTTH providers like Verizon, so in that respect the US isn't that backwards. |
