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jazzlady

join:2005-08-04
Tannersville, PA

reply to nasadude

Re: why watch tv online if I already have cable?

said by nasadude:

said by jazzlady:

.... Time for an unlimited tier for their broadband customers. I'd pay an extra $15 or $20 a month for unlimited with no caps.

unfortunately, that's exactly the attitude the cablecos like to see - someone willing to pay more money for an uncrippled connection.

there shouldn't be caps or throttling and if there were competition in the U.S. market, we wouldn't even be discussing caps.

however, I'm guessing it will cost you more than $15 or $20 a month for no caps, assuming they even allow accounts with no caps.
I'd still be willing to pay $15-20 more for a connection with a reasonable cap.

Comcast's 250 GB's is more like it, but I think I would want 500 GB's minimum if I were going to be streaming all the time.

It's a whole hell of a lot better than the stinking 80 GB cap I have to deal with now.

The problem is the providers are not willing to be reasonable.

That's really galling when you think about Japan with it's symmetrical 100/100 connection and 1 TB caps... for less money than most customers pay for broadband here. :-(

Broadband in this country will not improve until the government gets involved and sets some ground rules for these services- like they do for electric utilities.

In the meantime- the telco/cableco's will strive to give the customer the least amount of service for the highest price they can get away with.

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