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Re: Only reason said by jadebangle:said by majortom1029:The only reason why verizon is not doing metered billing is because they have competition. It has nothing to do with the network and all to do with MONEY. They have unlimited bandwidth other provider have limited or small pipeline so they are trying to hide the fact by using metering billing to reduce usage to minimum amount "Unlimited bandwidth"? No. They'll be oversubscribing just like every other provider does. Right now, utilization probably isn't much of an issue because they have a relatively new service that the vast majority of eligible households aren't subscribing to. Even with those that are, most aren't going to be using that much bandwidth- broadband video is still in it's infancy.
As utilization per user continues to increase (and it increases substantially every year), and as they gain more subscribers who on average use more bandwidth, it's almost a given that they'll have to implement some sort cap at some point in the future.
Even fiber can support only a finite number of 50M connections at once. |
