Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Customers cannot predict how much data will be downloaded.  Customers cannot predict how much data will be downloaded each month. I am concerned that there is no way for a subscriber to predict how many bytes of data will be downloaded by software installed on their computer, such as Windows Update and other applications that have automatic update capabilities without the subscribers knowledge. The subscriber does not have a way to predict how many bytes of data will be downloaded when the access a website or if the website will link their browser to another website like double click and download undesired data. Furthermore there are systems set up on the internet to search IP Addresses for open ports such as web bots or web crawlers. Those systems will increase traffic to a subscriber without any benefit to the subscriber. The lack of a method to accurately predict how many bytes of data that will be downloaded will cause many subscribers to receive huge bills.
In order to give a subscriber a way to determine if they want to pay the price in bytes downloaded to access a website, the entry page and the link to each subsequent web page would have to have posted a disclosure about how much data will be downloaded when the subscriber accesses the website or web page.
Before the ISP's should be permitted to implement CAPS, the entire internet architecture will have to be changed so that subscribers can predict how many bytes of data will be downloaded as they access websites and applications will have to disclose how many bytes of data will be downloaded when an update is to be installed. |
