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Re: Good step said by Rally:These caps the US providers are using are probably there to deter gluttons who just use their pipes 24x7. If someone goes over it for 1 month i don't think they'll enforce it, but if they continue to do so then they'll probably get hit with overages, kinda like what Comcast does. But I see this not only as a way to deter heavy users, but also as a last-resort to skirt the FCC's support of net neutrality. Imposing caps when they don't really need to to prevent competing heavy-bandwidth applications from competing with a similar offering from the ISP/Telco/CableCo (ABC, NBC, YouTube, Hulu anyone?).
In the end, will is be ethical to cut off a person's connection or charge excessive overages when they use competing services (like Vonage) when making emergency calls?
said by Rally:I just hope these caps scale with usage needs in the future. See above. Just because it's a private company does not mean it will use it's power ethically. Considering many rural and suburban areas carry little to no competition in the internet fields, it could easily become a problem. I don't trust companies to regulate or control my internet any more than many users on this site shun allowing the government to control or regulate their connections.
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