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1 edit | Double-Talk I also noticed in the article yesterday that the Verizon rep stated they would not impose limits on usage, but then turned around and stated that consumers can use any devices as long as they are willing to pay for usage.
That strongly reeked of "we're going to bill by the byte" to me.
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| Re: Double-Talk said by Matt  :I also noticed in the article yesterday that the Verizon rep stated they would not impose limits on usage, but then turned around and stated that consumers can use any devices as long as they are willing to pay for usage. That strongly reeked of "we're going to bill by the byte" to me. It is about time that pay-per-byte starts getting used. It solves all problems. It monetarily penalizes bandwidth hogs. It funds infrastructure investment. It avoids the need to throttle content providers, protocols, etc.
If this model flies, then expect to see it start appearing on landline broadband as well.
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| Re: Double-Talk said by TKJunkMail :It is about time that pay-per-byte starts getting used. It solves all problems. Except that pesky problem of having to pay for data you didn't request. If I'm paying by the byte, is my ISP going to filter out all spam on the mail server before it gets downloaded to my email client? Is my ISP going to block unwanted popup ads on any web sites that I might visit? What about annoying, high-bandwidth flash content that I don't want to see? What about windows updates that get downloaded even though I told windows not to download updates? | |
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| Everything you mentioned was requested by you or your computer in some manner.
SPAM: IMAP is wonderful 
Ads and Flash are relative to the sites that you request
Windows updates? Your OS is requesting them. | |
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| Why even debate? There are so many other choices in most places in the country why would anyone needing data service use Verizon?
They lied for 4 years and didn't stop until a Judge called them on the carpet.
Now they want pay per byte.
Simply remove them from your selection and go on with life.
PS: Most towns have more choices than just switching to GSM also. Sprint and Alltel are in a lot of places and have decent data plans.
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| Amen and Amen!
If the Telecommunications companies want to get greedy, then bury them in their corporate greed by filing mass lawsuits and winning them all.
Get SPAM you didn't want? SUE. Stupid ads appearing on your screen you don't want to see? SUE. Companies like Microsoft and so on using YOUR bandwidth to phone home/bug fix etc? SUE!!!
And, the lawsuits will be easy wins because when paying by the byte, it will be automatic to prove damages. Sue, sue sue.
And then this stupidity will die before it can get started.
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| said by TKJunkMail :said by Matt :If this model flies, then expect to see it start appearing on landline broadband as well. I don't think we'll see that on home broadband. There is too much out there (from an innovative point of view) that requires high bandwidth consumption. If per-byte billing ever occurs at the home level on my Fios, I'm out of there. And I love Fios.
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Alexandria, VA | Re: Double-Talk You pay for a connection to the Internet for average, normal use. You don't pay for 100% of your bandwidth. If you did, your monthly bill would have a couple of extra zeros added to it. | |
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1 edit | Re: Double-Talk said by openbox9 :You pay for a connection to the Internet for average, normal use. You don't pay for 100% of your bandwidth. If you did, your monthly bill would have a couple of extra zeros added to it. No offence my friend... What IS normal use? And who the FRACK gave you that mindset? I pay for X download, and X upload. And I'm damn well gonna use it if I need to. If I can't Use it, I am being defrauded by my provider. | |
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East Lyme, CT | Re: Double-Talk So you say "no offence" (sic), but then you trash on the poor guy?
Oh, and have you read your AUP lately? Acceptable use isn't saturating your connection 24/7, whether you think you *need* it or not. | |
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| Re: Double-Talk said by booticon :So you say "no offence" (sic), but then you trash on the poor guy? Oh, and have you read your AUP lately? Acceptable use isn't saturating your connection 24/7, whether you think you *need* it or not. Who said anything about saturating it 24/7?
However, I have that right if I so choose.
And again, the jury isn't necessarily out on the "idiot" thing. Go troll somewhere else. | |
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1 edit | Re: Double-Talk Did you even read that first question?
Nice, I disagree with you, and that makes me a troll. I believe you are the idiot. And yes, I do mean that in an offensive way.
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1 edit | Re: Double-Talk said by booticon :Did you even read that first question? Nice, I disagree with you, and that makes me a troll. I believe you are the idiot. And yes, I do mean that in an offensive way. (Edited to add emphasis) We all have our opinions.
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| said by hhawkman :No offence my friend... What IS normal use? There's a second word that you conveniently left out...average. Averages are extremely easy to calculate and hence very helpful in defining normal.said by hhawkman :I pay for X download, and X upload. No, you pay for "up to" the capability to peak to X download and Y upload.said by hhawkman :If I can't Use it, I am being defrauded by my provider. There is no fraud in your scenario. If you pay for guaranteed throughput and have the SLA to prove it, then you can claim failure by your service provider. I still wouldn't call it fraud, but you can use whatever semantics that make you happy. | |
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| Re: Double-Talk said by openbox9 :said by hhawkman :No offence my friend... What IS normal use? There's a second word that you conveniently left out...average. Averages are extremely easy to calculate and hence very helpful in defining normal. said by hhawkman :I pay for X download, and X upload. No, you pay for "up to" the capability to peak to X download and Y upload. said by hhawkman :If I can't Use it, I am being defrauded by my provider. There is no fraud in your scenario. If you pay for guaranteed throughput and have the SLA to prove it, then you can claim failure by your service provider. I still wouldn't call it fraud, but you can use whatever semantics that make you happy. Get business class service and "Acceptable use" should be out the window. That's a case where you can be assured full usage of the bandwidth both up and down that you are paying for. Of course it costs about 4 times as much as residential, but rightly so since presumably you are running a business and require tighter SLA's on your connection.
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| Re: Double-Talk You can get guaranteed full usage of your connection if you have a dedicated connection (not the "$359 Speakeasy Special"), which usually costs more than 4 times as much as a residential connection....and that's assuming only a circuit such as a T-1. | |
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| said by TKJunkMail :said by Matt :I also noticed in the article yesterday that the Verizon rep stated they would not impose limits on usage, but then turned around and stated that consumers can use any devices as long as they are willing to pay for usage. That strongly reeked of "we're going to bill by the byte" to me. It is about time that pay-per-byte starts getting used. It solves all problems. It monetarily penalizes bandwidth hogs. It funds infrastructure investment. It avoids the need to throttle content providers, protocols, etc. If this model flies, then expect to see it start appearing on landline broadband as well. Except for the fact people (customers) don't want to keep up with it and it's going to be hard for providers to track it.
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Alexandria, VA | Re: Double-Talk Not really. It won't be much different that keeping track of your mobile minutes used. The providers simply need to provide that feedback mechanism for their customers. | |
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| Re: Double-Talk said by openbox9 :Not really. It won't be much different that keeping track of your mobile minutes used. The providers simply need to provide that feedback mechanism for their customers. It's not quite that simple. What about all the spam email I receive or the phone home traffic of any software or devices I use? What if I piss someone off who decides to DDoS me?
There are methods and models to eliminate all the concerns I listed and to make bill-by-the-byte work, but I don't want my ISP in charge of any of them.
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Alexandria, VA | Re: Double-Talk Cost of doing business. If customers aren't willing to own up to being a netizen, then they shouldn't be connected. | |
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| said by TKJunkMail :It is about time that pay-per-byte starts getting used. It solves all problems. It monetarily penalizes bandwidth hogs. It funds infrastructure investment. It avoids the need to throttle content providers, protocols, etc. Yeah, except for one thing. It will cost consumers more. I'm not talking about bandwidth hogs, but everyday, regular users. They'll be billed for "only what they use" problem is the rates will be 3x higher.
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1 edit | It'll be a cold day in hell before I pay by the byte.
I will also ridicule anyone I meet who does.
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1 edit | Do you do the same thing for existing mobile phone users? | |
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| Re: Double-Talk said by openbox9 :Do you do the same thing for existing mobile phone users? I'll give it a shot, those mobile phone users, paying by the byte, a new ringtone every week. Texting, pay extra, roaming, pay extra. Want to surf the net? Pay a LOT extra.
It's just a money sucking mini-vacuum hooked to your wallet/purse.
I got more ... next time
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Alexandria, VA | Re: Double-Talk I was talking about minutes used since I have yet to see a flat-rate, all you can call mobile plan. | |
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| normal use is running at 100% sometimes and minimal others imo. i sometimes torrent things(wont discuss it) but then i can go for months where my only transfer is playing MMOs which use less bandwidth then surfing normal web pages(when not counting patches).
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