Mr Matt
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Eustis, FL
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| I repeat myself from a previous post! Andrew Harries, chief executive of Zeugma obviously either is very young or forgets the bad old days of competition between dial-up ISP's. AOL started out charging for holding time. If a subscriber exceeded their allocation they were charged for overuse. Unfortunately for AOL, those days ended with competition. AOL began losing customers in droves when competitors began offering flat rate pricing. You might note that AOL never recovered from being exposed to competition.
If consumers had access to a free market of Broadband ISP's to choose from, like maybe Twenty, Mr. Harris would be talking out of the other side of his mouth. He would be more interested in how to add capacity at low costs so his ISP customers did not get shut out of the business because of failure to keep up with the competition. As long as consumers are limited to one or two service providers, those providers will continue to take advantage of the situation and set excessive prices for their services. The solution is regulation with limits placed on the fees charged by ISP's, or a public broadband network like the public highway system. |
