bgraham
join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY Reviews:
 ·Verizon VoiceWing
 ·Verizon FiOS
·VOIPo
| I think all ISP's will end up thinking the same way. I believe we have seen just the beginning with caps plus additional charges.
The mindset of all ISP's is to get everyone hooked, then raise prices either through caps plus additional per gigabyte charges or just plain price increases.
As broadband becomes a household necessity people will keep paying more because they cannot live without it.
In areas where there is a monopoly it's so easy for providers to raise prices. Where there is a duopoly there is some limitation as to what a ISP can do regarding price increases (thankfully). With FIOS and cable here locally it seems the competition is not so much with price but with bandwidth offerings. (Verizon started really low but already has a couple of price increases) One ISP can offer 20/50 meg for the same price as the competition's 10/20 and that is a selling advantage. Who the hell really needs a 20/50 connection anyway, but the ISP's marketing department evidently think it is a big selling point. |
| This makes obsoletely no sense.
That's like having a buffet all the time and switching right in the middle of us when wanting to grab more stuff we like to eat...
Oh wait transferring data on the computer that uses our electricity is actually being billed like metered utility
insane
absurd
Their slowly crawling into our living room, please stop those thieves before they own everything.
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