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Limbo | What? You haven't heard? "While AT&T has been using an industry policy group and cherry picked data to suggest there's an unmanageable bandwidth crisis looming that requires a billing shift, network data from backbone operators doesn't support that, and AT&T has provided no raw data showing congestion problems of any kind"
Oh, but wait, there's this huge paradigm shift that's occurring right now what with all the streaming video and music, and pictures and firmware. So past data isn't an indicator of what's going to happen. Yeah, things are going to get really bad because of this shift and the backbone will get saturated and there will be all these bandwidth brownouts and supposedly the planet will stop spinning. . . So to insure we don't all run out of bandwidth and die when the planet stops working right, the big guys have got to resort to metered bandwidth with ridiculous markups for overages. It's the only way we'll survive!!!
I can't believe you guys haven't heard of this by now. It's in all the telco's talking points playbooks.
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| said by fireflier:Oh, but wait, there's this huge paradigm shift that's occurring right now what with all the streaming video and music, and pictures and firmware. So past data isn't an indicator of what's going to happen. Thanks for the citation: »Past statistics don't always show future trends
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| I believe you might have missed the sarcasm dripping for that posting.
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1 edit | said by NetAdmin1:I believe you might have missed the sarcasm dripping for that posting. No. I didn't miss it. Maybe you missed my sarcasm.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:No. I didn't miss it. Maybe you missed my sarcasm. From your post it was hard to gather anything other than you spamming this thread with a link to your previous post.
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Limbo | reply to fAcEtIOUs
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That may be true, but then why do I have to pay for speculation? Didn't we just suffer record gas prices because some geniuses in the financial markets speculated on the price of oil?
Think about it: Supposedly 5 percent of customers use a majority of the available bandwidth. If the goal was to solve the problem then why make a change that affects all users, not just the bandwidth hogs? How about a different solution (like reducing the hogs speed after they exceed a "clearly stated cap", or switching violaters to a business class service after so many violations of a "clearly stated cap", or booting them off the service after too many violations of a "clearly stated cap").
We have no idea if the switch in billing is justified or just another example of the corporate greed that has worked out so well for this country. Bear in mind that AT&T has not provided, and probably won't provide any concrete, verifiable data to back up it's claims. In all fairness to AT&T I acknowledge the possibility that this change might be crucial to their future as a ISP. Given AT&T's track record, a lack of definitive proof and their use of so called "industry trade groups" (if you're right why do you have to pay someone else to lie for you), I choose to be skeptical. |
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Limbo | You're pretty much correct on all points.
My OP was pretty much sarcasm to the extreme, but your points are still completely valid.
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