| If they're going to cap the service then unlimit the speeds. Geesh.
In all seriousness, the only bottleneck here is the last mile...and greed. Why upgrade your last mile when customer overages and caps will pad your pocket instead?
Oh, and bandwidth is cheap. Dirt cheap. By dirt cheap I mean readily available for $10 per Mbit...and that's unlimited, and on a lowish commit (100 Mbps). RR probably pays half that on average. So 100 GB of bandwidth, disregarding the last mile, costs them two or three dollars, tops. Trust me, I've seen the offers.
Bandwidth is no longer a big cost for big internet providers, unless they're stupid. Until you get to the last mile, where you want to protect TV revenues and you don't want to upgrade physical systems. That, and that only...okay, lack of competition also plays a big part...is why TWC is capping the crap out of their customers, to the point that watching an hour of TV online per day plus regular web tasks will get you overages on their standard package. |
