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Re: hmmmmm said by factcheckers :
seems like the perfect business model if I have ever seen one. Yeah, I use the internet everyday all day for $40/month and someone next door checks email twice and pays $40/month...the current system makes total sense Karl. You may be the biggest jackass on the internet
Of course the current business model makes total sense. BECAUSE the person that only checks his email twice a day and pays $40/month to do it is EXACTLY the reason there shouldn't be caps with overage charges. Because the average user paying $40 a month isn't using anywhere near $40 worth of bandwidth.
I have seen a very large ISP's broadband residential customer average bits/second when averaged out over all customers from 2008. The average, 42kbit/sec. Yes, you read that right. No, I cannot tell you the ISP.
And it wasn't a surprise to me at all when I saw the numbers. Because I have always known this was the case for the average user. Yes, there are probably times when that average users is watching videos or downloading something, and they certainly spike up to higher speeds. But you average out their usage for a whole year, and you get 42kbit/sec.
I'd rather the current business model continue, where the 42kbit/sec for $40 users are supplementing my well above average usage for $40 with no cap and no overage fee.
ISP's need to focus on killing off the users that go through 1TB or 2TB of data a month, those are the ones that hurt individual nodes. And no one is going to want those people as customers once they get them, unless those people are willing to pay a lot more for service. |
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Charlotte, NC | The report includes various other interesting tidbits, including the claim that real world ISP broadband speeds are often 50 percent to 80 percent slower than advertised speeds. The agency also notes that 1% of all users drive 20% of traffic and 20% of all users drive 80% of traffic.
From the FCC: We're Halfway Done with with the NBP article today.
There are set costs for equipment in the last mile which need to be covered but the 20% crowd are the ones that are driving the costs up. As this article or one of the posters the equipment limited the usage now nics are so cheap and servers at content providers feed it at next to nothing. When you have flat rate billing people will waste it. Gas is not flat rate but when it was $2 and went to $4 a lot of people found they did not really need that big SUV to just commute to work.
I would benefit if they had a low usage rate. Heck I could have doubled my usage under the very low TWC 40 Gig cap and still have come under the cap. If the ISP don't feel they have the money to spend then don't look for upgrades in the under served areas.
This crowd wants to pick and chose but it needs to be looked at as a whole. One size does not work. |
