 DotMac4Shill H8rPremium
join:2007-10-26
Huntington Beach, CA
2 edits | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: In Favor Of By-The-Byte Pricing Perhaps, but it would take a lot of major ISPs doing it at the same time. Otherwise it's all of them looking at each other seeing who is going to be the first to do it.
And likely, cable who would want to do it can't, because the telcos have the capacity and won't follow cable to bill by the MB.
And I say telcos have the capacity only in that SO FAR they haven't implemented the phantom caps or user cancellations that some of the cable operators have. I'm also not aware of Verizon or AT&T using aggressive traffic shaping. If they are, then they might follow suit should cable try it.
Widespread DOCSIS 3 deployments may make the entire cable capacity issue moot for at least the short term. |
