said by en102: quote:
"Free Press prefers that grandma - who simply wants to download their grandchildren's online photos a few times a month - to pay for the heavy-using teenager who is downloading HD movies."
Grandma that wants to download online photos a few times / month
should probably pay ~ $10-$15/month, and 'high' end users should be in the $40-$100/month (6Mbps -> 50Mbps).
The 'caps' on grandma's usage would be a paltry 5GB - not even enough to download typical service pack upgrades without overages.
While I don't like caps, at least Comcast has set a 'usable' 250GB cap. Just because I don't need high speed, doesn't mean I don't want to 'use' the Internet.
You theory assumes ISPs are willing to drastically lower the prices for the low useage customers. That's the rub. They still want to charge those customers the SAME rate yet tell everyone how they are some how saving them money, by charging high useage customers more. Hey I don't have a problem with a low usage person being charged less, but unless the ISPs actually lower those prices it's all bullshit. All those low useage customers that are for this and think they are going to see lower rates are fooling themselves. In 5 years when they are "high useage" customers they'll regret being for metered billing and caps.
