Lawmaker Unveils Anti-Metered Billing Law > Unlimted Broadband

reply to chimera

Re: Unlimted Broadband

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.

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!