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Digital Plumber
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
 ·voip.ms
·Vitelity VOIP
·Callcentric
·VoiceStick
·ViaTalk
 ·Comcast
 ·Embarq
| reply to sturmvogel
Re: This is pathetic...
said by sturmvogel  :"If you use far more than everyone else, it cost more than everyone else and you should pay more than everyone else (i.e. commercial service)" And if you want to purchase that, it is NOT offered. They can only sell it in places they have capacity.
I had no problem getting business service installed at my house here in Minnesota after the DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades were rolled out. (It was prohibited before that due to neighborhood capacity concerns) |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
·Comcast
| this was also foreseen...
Comcast is full of s***!
we had this debate when cablecos first announced caps to combat a supposed bandwidth crunch. If there was a bandwidth crunch, then why would an ISP that was instrumental in facilitating caps in order to help the bandwidth crunch turn around and circumvent there own remedy by offering even more media online chewing up even more bandwidth?
Money,thats why!
This cap issue has always been, and will always be about adding additional revenues. Its never been about intellectual property, thats the vehicle they used to sell it!
Its just freakin Comcraptic
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"When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair."---Sylvestor Stallone |
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nelson420
@rr.com
| reply to S_engineer
Re: this was also foreseen...
said by S_engineer :This cap issue has always been, and will always be about adding additional revenues. Its never been about intellectual property, thats the vehicle they used to sell it! Its just freakin Comcraptic These cable companies want you accessing their content and services, or the content and services provided by their business partners, because it financially benefits them.
Throttling, traffic shaping, download caps, etc., can pose enough of an obstacle that it discourages people from accessing 3rd party content. At the end of the day I think companies like Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner would love nothing better than to become Internet gatekeepers.
If you think that Comcast's 250GB cap is craptastic, Time Warner is testing new account packages that would limit monthly downloads to 5GB - 40GB...
»www.newsadmin.com/usenet_comment···2009.asp |
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Kill4Speed
join:2007-01-12
Ashburn, VA | thank you comcast. you helped convince my significant other that verizon FIOS is better for us. come on spring already |
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