Approaching The Zettabyte Era > Great, More Ammo For The Cap Arguments

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Re: Great, More Ammo For The Cap Arguments

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I keep seeing this magical "95%" being thrown around like it will apply until the end of time. It won't and so far as I know it's little more than a number some TWC exec pulled out of his ass to justify their ridiculously low cap testing. As I've said before, in 5-7 years, it won't be 95% based on current traffic stats. Once more consumers get on-board with emerging broadband technologies (VOD, on-line gaming and downloads, Music/video purchases on-line, and any number of things that will show up) that 95% will be more like 80% or perhaps even lower.

Applying 95% as a number representative of any user that's not a pirate (which is simply villifying anyone who would dare use "large amounts of bandwidth" as defined by an ISP) is inaccurate and misleading. Some advanced app non-pirating users make up that 5% and represent what's coming. TWC and others are just making their moves now to pick up another revenue stream before a small minority becomes a much larger more vocal minority which will get in their way toward even more profit.

So, please stop assuming that 5% is all related to pirating or gross misuse of the network. The math for hitting TWC's 40GB highest-tier cap using DTV's VOD isn't hard to do and does not represent unreasonable network use and it certainly won't seem so for future users.

Having said all of that, I also don't believe higher prices are necessarily justified until these ISPs can demonstrate that their infrastructure is becoming saturated and justifies massive investment to fix it. They seem to be forgetting that while investors may give them the bucks to build, it's their customers who give them a reason to build in the first place.

Are other industrialized nations' telecoms having this much trouble with infrastructure? I can't answer that but I'm sure some in the forum can.
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I think metered bandwidth will throttle our technological future. I'm also OK with paying for what I use--- **IF** it's what I want to use it on.

I am NOT okay with paying for content I don't want, like ads, spam, portscans, security patches, DRM, Bloatware, and the like. Metering is just a bad idea in general.

Also, the providers **absolutely should not** be able to have their cake and eat it too. Fine, if they want metered bandwidth, so be it, but it better be usage based, not "$49.95 a month PLUS $1.00 per gig over 40"... if you use 4GB a month, your bill should be .... about $1.00 for the month.

Use almost nothing? Pay almost nothing. It's only fair.

(yeah, I know it will never happen...)

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said by pspcrazy Has anyone noticed from like 1 month ago there's been like 2-3 posters who have just kept saying caps are essential, without caps the internet will die, or caps are awesome? [b :

Oddly these posters have began posting like this just recently [/b]

I don't fully agree with caps the idea makes sense but the problem would be the future development of infrastructure. Once there able to meet the demands the execs and CEO's are going to sit back and rake in the money and laugh in disbelief, that this plan actually went through.
What I find interesting is company's that are going through with caps or in testing (Such as TWC) It will probally weed out the bandwidth hogs and they will flock to another provider. Just think for a moment do you think the savings on their end will be passed onto you as a lower rate? They will take our money and come up with another way of charging more , such as making you pay for access to certain websites (Youtube,Google, etc)
Don't you remember there was a few providers a while back trying to get them to pay them. What do you think they are working on now?
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