| Who decides what's reasonable? These caps are just as stupid as the baseline in your electric bill. If 1% of the users out there are using 20% of the bandwidth, why not use that as a way to tier your rates? Like if you are in the top 1% of the bandwidth users for that month you get charged and extra 50$ or something like that. Like it or not, with voip, internet TV and Movie services starting up on the internet people are going to reach those caps very quickly even using legitimate services. So let's see now, ISPs never deliver on their advertised speeds, they sell our private data without giving us a choice via the TOS, instead of keeping their infrastructure up to date they call us bandwidth hogs, they do everything in their power to get rid of competition so you have to except their POS TOS. I know that this is all just good business but come on. If this keeps up more and more people are going to call for them to get regulated. Their greed is going to mess up their good thing.
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Camden, TN | said by strange_69:These caps are just as stupid as the baseline in your electric bill. If 1% of the users out there are using 20% of the bandwidth, why not use that as a way to tier your rates? TW is doing that supposedly. They claim only 1% of their users use more than 40 GB. |
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| Wow, you mean the other 99% are lamers that only check their E-mail. You can do that with dial up. It's time for ISPs to wake up and realize that people are actually going to use the internet. For $65/month I expect to have speeds close to advertised speeds and to be able to use my voip carrier and be able to watch movies on netflix. Also, there are a whole bunch of neat things out there that are going to need more bandwidth in the future. It would hurt the economy to penalize bandwidth use. |
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