said by kelso:said by BF69:Also if you live in an area where cable is you're only option for broadband how is that a death knell? What are you going to do go back oto dial-up?
With logic like that, Comcast could just increase the rates, or set a cap that would pick up some bucks from unaware customers. Rinse and repeat every 6 months.
How many people even know what how much they down/up load per month ? Not many !
Yes, the essence of the situation, they currently don't need to know. But, as soon as they get hit with an overage charge, they will get pissed.
Well I guess it's better to get pissed off than pissed on.
But, What are they going to do, go back to dial-up ?
I can tell you as a small ISP myself that the "causal" users still use 2 or 3 GB daily. The power users burn up every bit of bandwidth they pay for and we don't worry about it because as an ISP we are more concerned with keeping everything up to date and keeping service running smoothly.
