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Re: Flate rate is also easier to forcast And then they lose their house if they get hacked? |
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1 edit | said by insomniac84:And then they lose their house if they get hacked? obviously if a customer is regularly using less than a gig per month, and then one month they have 500+ and get a huge bills, ISPs should be willing to deal with these situations smoothly. |
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 jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA | Well, if the wireless industry is any indication of how these scenarios would be handled, they only get smoothed-over once the media makes a big stink out of the situation and it becomes a public relations disaster. |
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If the reports of cell phone users accidentally incurring huge roaming charges are any indication, the ISPs will reduce the user's $100,000 one month bill to a more affordable $10,000.
EDIT: I should really read existing replies before I reply. jmn1207  said essentially the same thing.
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jmn1207Premium
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Yea, because the customer should never be held liable anything. |
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said by jmn1207:My lawyers will be contacting you. lmao |
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cmon
Do you really think a Home Cable modem connection could be worth any more than an absolute MAXIMUM of say $300 per month?
(not that I agree with any over charges) |
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| said by backness:cmon Do you really think a Home Cable modem connection could be worth any more than an absolute MAXIMUM of say $300 per month? (not that I agree with any over charges) Pretty much. See a month is a finite period of time. So with a 15mbit connection, at an overestimate of 10 cents a gigabyte, you would pay a max of 475 dollars a month. If you use a more reasonable cost of 1 cent a gigabyte it only costs a max of $47.50.
But ISPs don't buy metered bandwidth from anyone. They just buy bulk symmetric connections. So there is no real cost per gigabyte anywhere in the system. It's just invented. There is no real cost per usage.
That is why fixed cost lines make sense. As bandwidth has nothing to do with the cost. The cost is the wires and the equipment connecting the wires and the maintenance. These are the same for everyone no matter how much they use. |
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1 edit | well in canada, they charge 1 dollar per gigabyte so your 10cents is way off
Edit:speelin |
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Absolving the consumer of responsibility (once again) for maintaining their systems securely. Great. |
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