chimera
join:2009-06-09
Washington, DC Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to Wizeguy
Re: Unlimted Broadband There's a difference between throwing out an impossible price model, and telling a company who is trying to price gouge that if they want to price for usage that they need to drop their base cost, and actually have the usage cost reflect the cost of service.
Few people here are objecting to the theory of having metered prices, but the average user should be paying less than they do now according to ISP rhetoric that 90% of the usage comes from 10% of the users as the costs will start being distributed properly. That isn't going to happen, and that is why congress and the FCC and FTC need to make sure that monopolistic activities don't result in consumers being exploited even more than they already are. |
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| I'm objecting to metered prices. They don't make sense. Bandwidth isn't a limited commodity. The main costs of a network are fixed, based on the amount the ISP spends to lay down the initial pipes.
In other words, Grandma doesn't cost the ISP any more than teenager. |
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chimera
join:2009-06-09
Washington, DC Reviews:
·Comcast
| Yes, but the amount of traffic a single line can handle is fixed until they pay to lay down more fiber, also maintaining more fiber does end up costing more money so in theory a metered cost makes sense. Adding the cost to the current model doesn't because of the sheer amount of excess profits already involved, but in a perfect world metering cost during peak hours would be a logical way to ensure that ISPs could deliver full speed to all users at all times.
That isn't the goal of the current metering efforts, so I do oppose them, but it's important to understand that in some alternate reality where we weren't already being fleeced that metered billing could be fair. We just don't live in that reality. |
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rcabor4
join:2007-04-17
Grand Prairie, TX | And with metered billing, they get the money to lay down more fiber, but dont need it cause people are using it less because the overages are outrageous! |
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