pbarrowPremium
join:2003-09-16
Montgomery, AL
kudos:1 | Frontier Confirms Cap Plans Does the quote mean that if no one goes over the caps that they will lose money and go bankrupt?
What a crock.
It doesn't cost moeny to transfer data. It only cost money to tun the equipment whether there is data flow over the network or not.
They (ISP's) are all just a bunch of crooks like those fools on Wall Street and those big Banks.
I would dearly like to see Broadband nationalized and pay my monthy rate to the government as non-profit - to keep the infrastructure up to date and maintained and just put all the private ISP out of business (unless they wan't to subcontract to the Gov to run/maintaingeographic area but have NO control over pricing or anything else). |
|
 koolman2Premium
join:2002-10-01
Anchorage, AK | It doesn't cost money to transfer data, but it does cost money to upgrade the network to handle more throughput. The average throughput on a normal network is increasing steadily.
5 GB is a really tiny cap. Unless the base service cost is also lowering a lot (read: to about $10), and the cost per gig over is small (50¢ at most), I don't see this flying with many customers. 50 GB is fine for my use, but I'm not on their network so it doesn't matter. |
|
1 edit | said by koolman2: (50¢ at most), I don't see this flying with many customers. I was told by a regional manager it would be like one dollar a gig |
|
 NOCManMacChatterPremium
join:2004-09-30
Colorado Springs, CO | Nice when they pay in many cases less than 5 cents per gig. |
|
| reply to pbarrow
sorry for burst your balloon and bringing you BACK TO REALITY, but it can cost money to transfer data. look into the various leverls of tiers for the internet and peering. basically, tier 1 providers are the largest and peer for free as far as i remember. if you (ISP/company/whatever the technical name is) aren't peering, YOU HAVE TO PAY for bandwidth. |
|
|
|
| reply to koolman2
said by koolman2:It doesn't cost money to transfer data, but it does cost money to upgrade the network to handle more throughput. The average throughput on a normal network is increasing steadily. 5 GB is a really tiny cap. Unless the base service cost is also lowering a lot (read: to about $10), and the cost per gig over is small (50¢ at most), I don't see this flying with many customers. 50 GB is fine for my use, but I'm not on their network so it doesn't matter. A gig is $.02 each. That's why my webhoster charges me if I go over. Frontier is a crooked ripoff.
--
Saving the world keeps me busy. However, I find Earth very primitive from my home planet of Krypton.
-Supergirl |
|
