| When Worlds Collide Customers are being promised the sun, moon, stars and a few galaxies when it comes to what's available on the internet. HD movies on your new LCD 52" TV, music, video phones (again!?), watching TV episodes, etc. Look at all the new toys brought out at the CES -- so many of them involve more and more bandwidth use! The future looks bright unless you look through it with the narrow lens of a bandwidth cap.
I lived under Wildblue's cap for two years. Even though I wasn't charged for going over my 10G limit, I'm very sensitive to my usage and fear for my internet life once my grandfathered Alltel contract expires. What's going to happen when people fall in love with the new offerings and hit that expensive cap? This is a bigger, broader issue that's not being dealt with as loudly as it should. |
