| I've work'd it out a bit. Using the 10mbit DSL as my starting point, it should take about 31 hours to reach the 150 GB cap (1GB in 12.5 minutes). That is 31 hours of constant downloading of course, but it is not entirely unreasonable to project that amount of usage over an entire month for almost anyone, not just a "heavy" user. I've been reseaching the cost of bandwith, and if we are charged $1.50 for it they are marking up 10x, at $1.00 just 6.66x at least by bulk prices of a year ago of .15/GB. So even if you accept the concept of caps, which is really just a pretext to pad consumer's bills and has no data to justify such a business model. We'd be grossly overcharged for the service. What I'm hoping, now that I've done a little poking around, is that either the caps fail, are raised or that business accounts are not capped (then I'd switch to one of those). Only time will tell I suppose. Maybe the new head of the FCC will do something useful for consumers for a change, eh? |
