fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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The recession has been in play longer than a year, or are you going by the "all is wonderful" rosy picture that he media is painting for you? Even the government has stated, in the US, that the recession has been going on longer than though. With that out of the way....
What's to say that if the Canadian providers DIDN'T cap services that they would have lost money too? It's great to look at only one side of a multi-sided argument, huh? And, that throttling method was in place in many countries for a long time.. albeit, many moved away from it, but stop and think. WHY were those caps in place to begin with? Because the networks didn't support anything other than that. Those countries started to build out and when they did, the restrictions were removed. But, you get now add in the consumer themselves. If they do not want to pay up for service, there is not going to be money to upgrade. This is why I long call for simply raising the base rate and pricing the service honestly. The bells in this country have been dropping the price of DSL for a long time, HOWEVER, it spurred the "Amazon and Google is using my pipes and we want more money!" argument. In the process of dropping the price of DSL, it sure looked good in marketing against cable. ... so who's expense did that come at? .. the consumer. There was no money to really make an honest attempt to upgrade the infrastructure and is why many telco providers still offer lackluster service as compared to cable.
Also, again, you can't compare Canada to the U.S. in this.. your economy is much different than the U.S. as is the general way of thinking and life up there. |
