Jipa219
join:2000-08-02
Wilkes Barre, PA | Service and Caps Call me old fashioned but when I first got Epix, which was bought by Frontier, they explained I was leasing a network connection of 1.5 Meg/d 384/up. My monthly fee was to pay for that connection at those speeds. If they kept up with that model and did not play percentages or oversell their markets, there would be no problem. DSL should be a leasing of a line capable of speeds advertised, we are buying the pipe. The problem is that companies get greedy and try to sell services with the hopes of signing up grandma's who send an e mail a week. There should be net neutral regulations set forth whereby you lease a line at a certain tier and the line should be capable of giving you that 24/7. This is the bandwidth you purchase with your monthly fee, and this is what you should get. Just like unlimited local calls or for that matter cable or sat tv, the service is there when i need it, i am not charged more for calling more on my local plan, or watching TV for 10 hrs as opposed to 5. They provide the signal and that's the cost of doing business. We need to get away from caps altogether. The cap should be the amount of bandwidth I can use in a month at the top dl/ul speed. Lets face it, the amounts of data/video/etc is only going to go up, with on demand video, gaming etc... ISP's need to get over themselves and become Dump Pipes and provide the connection to the internet, and stop trying to be more than that. I wont mind paying more for a dumb pipes. I will especially be upset if we are going to pay stimulus money to these guys and get metered service to boot. I don't want to see our money get taken away like the Universal Fees that were paid to update and modernize broadband, (well if broadband is described as the pockets of executives pockets). |
