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Re: hmmmmm First off you have no idea what the pricing model may or may not be, and from I can see just have 2 ISPs in my town has driven the price down so much so that I basically get each on taking off the price each year if I switch... so price is not even an issue yet... but as revenue models change so with the way we pay for service...
Oh and if you want to look at it from a realistic perspective - then how come ELECTRICITY AND HEAT are billed as METERED services ----- HMMMMMMM.... oh wait well that is different because of BLAH, BLAH, BLAH... no matter what the argument is all this site will do is bitch and moan about whatever it WANTS and not what the businesses who need to run the businesses need... |
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For one thing, you control how much electricity and heat is used. With data, you do NOT directly control what you use. For example, there are ads pushed to you on a web page. There are commercials pushed to you on Hulu, etc. There is spam sent to you. There are DOS attacks and other thing that will eat your bandwidth.
The current way of doing things is just fine. You guys are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg if your not careful. |
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said by factcheckers :
First off you have no idea what the pricing model may or may not be Neither Comcast nor TimeWarner reduced their prices 1 cent when they introduced caps. The neighbor who checks email twice a month is still paying as much as before. What in the world would make you think anyone would pay LESS under a new metered plan with Verizon - the kings of nickle and dime EXTRA charges?
And yes, the members of this site will very likely continue to bitch and moan about the idea. The only question is, why are you here?
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said by jjeffeory:For one thing, you control how much electricity and heat is used. With data, you do NOT directly control what you use. For example, there are ads pushed to you on a web page. There are commercials pushed to you on Hulu, etc. There is spam sent to you. There are DOS attacks and other thing that will eat your bandwidth. The current way of doing thing Is is just fine. You guys are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg if your not careful. Actually this is a very important point that needs attention. We cant control all bandwidth to our computers via the Internet. This will certainly put a big dent into adverstising and other Online revenue (coincidently this would make the ISPs very happy in itself).
With this said I do feel a little of the ISPs pain...choke choke, I cant believe I just said that. Billions are being made via the Internet and ISPs just want more of the pie and not be the only one's stuck with the dirty work (lower profit margins, huge investments, tons of support staff, etc...) of providing the core network. Certainly I dont favor metered use but Im inclined to think that I would not be impacted since I am not a heavy downloader. If it must be metered it will only work if its seen to cut down on abuse, period. Maybe set caps during peak hours only. Meaning if you go over 250GB/Month during the time period of 5pm-11pm would you face overage charges. Any time spent online outside of these hours would not count towards the limit. Much like how the phone companies provide Unlimited use during non-peak hours. Just an example idea that could be tweaked since I am awaare there are abusers downloading 24/7.... but does this really negatively impact network performance outside of peak hours? Im not sure. |
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