TheMGPremium
join:2007-09-04
Canada
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 ·TekSavvy DSL
| reply to BF69
Re: FAP Shaw cable has had a 100GB cap on their "extreme" (10mbps) service for a long time.
And somehow, I never heard anyone complain about it... funny how that works huh?
Capped service is nowhere near as bad as a lot of people are saying, when the caps are reasonable.
Australians on the other hand have plenty of reason to complain, their caps are downright ridiculous. |
| The problem, as I see it, is that once the company starts, things only get worse. Satellite internet FAPs are in the range 7.5 to 15 GB/mo or 200 MB/day (download, uploads are typically 1/3 of the download limits) depending on which service you use. The only difference between accounts is the price and the download limit. Cell phones use similar limits simply to make more money; my family has to pay the extra $20/mo because we typically use 750 minutes between our three phones but the cutoff is 700. In summary, I predict that if the cable companies implement FAPs, they will not be 500 GB, they will be 20 GB for the first tier, 50 GB for an extra $20/mo 100 GB for an extra $50/mo; and we will have no choice but to either stop using YouTube etc or pay through our noses. |
