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| Re: Speed not matching the service.... said by dan991199  :[..], why offer the speed if you are going to put such constraints on what the customer does with it? This is a great question which prompts me to answer with another question 
The cost of building and supporting any network is based on max capacity used at the peak hour / busy day. As you raise speeds and if user behavior does not change, the impact is not substantial. However if a very small portion of your users "re-sell", share or allow third parties to use this bandwidth 7x24 maxing out this speed, there is a significant cost increase in the usage.
The difference is usage vs. speed.
That said, if you had to choose, and from a business perspective (not greed) could only choose 1, what would it be:
•Unlimited usage at low speed
•Fast speed without sharing bandwidth and within the same usage as 98% of average users
•Fast speed and pay for the extra bandwidth as a 2% "power user" or user allowing file sharing for the Internet |
