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1 edit | Wrong Metered billing is inevitable. All the news peddled here to the opposite of it just shows how much its gaining steam behind corporate analyst doors.
If it can make more money, it will be done |
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| All the news peddled here to the opposite of it just shows how much its gaining steam behind corporate analyst doors. Investors have been pushing this for years. It gained steam up until Time Warner Cable tried to actually implement it, at which time they were laughed back to "behind corporate analyst doors." It's only inevitable if the users allow it. |
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| Time Warners mistake was jumping in the pool. When you inch in, it isnt at cold.
The metaphorical issues that i am targeting are caps and throttling; things that didnt exist a decade ago.
Maybe ISPs are starting to realize that IP delivery is the future, and they are just protecting their investment? |
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| When you inch in, it isnt at cold. Is this where I mention the slowly turn up the heat to boil an unwitting frog metaphor?Maybe ISPs are starting to realize that IP delivery is the future, and they are just protecting their investment? Comcast apparently believes IP delivery, Movie tickets, concert tickets, VoIP, TV, Internet video, blogs, and network broadcasting via NBC Universal is the future....I'd say they're pretty well diversified from a future-protection perspective. |
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no, it's not.
we wouldn't even be having this discussion if there were competition in broadband.
if the FCC gets off it's @ss and starts doing their job, someday we will have competition (maybe). the question is, will this happen before metered billing happens? |
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| said by nasadude:we wouldn't even be having this discussion if there were competition in broadband. if the FCC gets off it's @ss and starts doing their job, someday we will have competition (maybe). the question is, will this happen before metered billing happens? + 1
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said by baineschile:Time Warners mistake was jumping in the pool. When you inch in, it isnt at cold. The metaphorical issues that i am targeting are caps and throttling; things that didnt exist a decade ago. Maybe ISPs are starting to realize that IP delivery is the future, and they are just protecting their investment? And Time Warner tried to do this while also putting on way too low caps. The mgt there were stupid. And yes metered billing is inevitable.
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Like how all the competition helped our cell phone bills? |
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said by baineschile:Metered billing is inevitable. All the news peddled here to the opposite of it just shows how much its gaining steam behind corporate analyst doors. If it can make more money, it will be done All the pro-corporations talking points peddled here will not hide what it is: a rip-off against the consumer. |
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said by yt:Like how all the competition helped our cell phone bills? It did. Otherwise you would have a situation way worse than it actually is. |
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1 edit | Pahleeez... I pay more for my family cell phone plan than my entire cable triple play. Guess which one I use more and has more cost of infrastructure and content. I guess all those SMS messages and ringtones are really expensive for the wireless companies and competition just doesn't do it....
Competition... Bah! |
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If its inevitable, then regulate it as a utility. Then you can have carriers pricing models be subjected to the scrutiny of whomever regulates it, such as a PUC...wouldn't that be fun....
Then you could define a cap as cost, which would also give the regulating body room to scrutinize their networks to either prove or deny the necessity for a cap.
Since a cap does absolutely nothing for congestion, carriers would have to justify the cap for other reasons.
Karl cites the effort put forth by Comcast to evolve with changing demands, but Comcast is one of the few that are taking a proactive approach.
It seems to me that all of this talk about metered biulling is distracting us from the conversation we should be having. That is...where do we want to be with our broadband services 10 years from now and how do we get there?
12 years ago , then President Clinton gave billions of dollars in tax incentives to these douchebags ( change if you like Karl) for a broadband highway that was supposedly going to deliver 40mbps to every home in America. 12 years later half the country is living under neglected dsl networks and the other half is getting gouged for 10 mbps or better. The current carrier system collectively has brought nothing but stagnation.
This is what needs to be addressed.
Well, this rant was therapeutic if nothing else!
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zipjay
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Remember long distance? I certainly do. Now you can call California from New York and pay the same price as if your calling your neighbor |
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Mullica Hill, NJ | said by zipjay:Remember long distance? I certainly do. Now you can call California from New York and pay the same price as if your calling your neighbor during that long distance era the phone system was also beyond corrupt. it was cheaper to call California then to call the next county.
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we have to all fight this shit.consumption billing will kill the internet and probably kill my holocaust memorial site which has a full 6 DVD free set of my 5 1/2 hour documentary.to download it will take you 6 DVD's so go figure the math as to how many will even bother to watch it when they watch their downloads.
these greedbags nust think we are all just mindless sheep.
my holocaust memorial on my site
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Canonsburg, PA
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If metered billing is inevitable than so is the "dumb pipe" separating content and distribution. If consumers have to put up with crappy metered billing you can bet there will be enough angry consumers demanding (even throwing some congress critters out of office if that what it takes) that content and distribution companies be separated. |
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