There's Still No Evidence That Metered Billing Is Necessary > In one sentence.

reply to AnonDOG

Re: In one sentence.

Congestion has always been used as a red herring to engage in anti-competitive behavior, be it Skype or a million other bogeyman. All without having to provide a shred of actual raw network data. Anyone who doesn't at least recognize the threat these models could potentially pose to the Internet either is playing willfully ignorant because they stand to profit, or they haven't really been paying attention.

reply to R4M0N

said by R4M0N:

said by AnonDOG :

The only people who fear metered billing are people who believe their bill will go up with metered billing.

Or people who understand where this is going in the future even if their bills do not change under metered billing.



I'm not a heavy user by any means but I do understand that once metered billing is implemented in the name of penalizing the "hogs", the next step will be to tweak it for maximum profit by constantly redefining the meaning of "hog".

One only needs to look that the pricing scheme of text messaging to realize how bad it could get.

reply to Karl Bode
Agreed Karl, and the divide seems to be between businessmen who want profit, and network engineers who want to build better networks, and nary the two will ever meet. Oil and water as far as the "perfect ISP net" is concerned.

Oh and the users, who fund all of this, well they can just sit there and eat dirt.

reply to R4M0N