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 swhx7Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia | Opposing price gouging, not caps Not everyone is against billing based on total traffic - but I think practically every customer who would be affected by this would prefer reasonable rates and terms.
The currently announced terms are a 40 GB limit for more than a lot of customers are currently paying for unlimited, and a maximum 100 GB cap for $75, and $1 per GB over, with a limit of $75 overage. This amounts to $75 for less than half of the notorious Comcast cap, or $150 for unlimited (which, again, many of us are currently getting, though not necessarily using, for under $50).
Meanwhile press reports have made clear that there is no shortage of capacity on the mainlines at all, no lack of capacity in the "last mile" most of the time, and TW's costs have been going down and its profits up.
So it's an obvious case of charging more for less, without necessity. And the motive - apart from the investors' imperative to increase profits every quarter - appears to be to prevent online video from being competitive with TW's TV service. | |
 bentand IngaPremium
join:2004-10-04
Loveland, CO
 ·Comcast
| said by swhx7:So it's an obvious case of charging more for less, without necessity. And the motive - apart from the investors' imperative to increase profits every quarter - appears to be to prevent online video from being competitive with TW's TV service. You nailed it. One of cables revenue centers is the sales of the advertising that is injected into the TV programming. They see this potentially evaporating as streaming video takes over the market.
Won't somebody please think of the poor cable companies?
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| and whats funny is, they are a business, this is exactly what they should be doing,,,, this is soooo funny | |
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