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 ·RoadRunner Cable
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Re: No way to really know how problematic they are I would love to hear your explanation as to why Cox does not need any cap at all when fiber is near by. Does it change the state of the universe? Do bits somehow travel cheaper. Somehow I think you will dodge that one again.
This is how not so clever people try to distort and lie. Add a little of the truth into the lie. Cell phones have a massive bandwidth crunch, where as many wired systems are a self-induced super oversold cash grab, which is easily eliminated when competition arrives, IE - FIBER.
This is also a petty excuse, because one service does it, its ok for a completely different service to do it...Right.... |
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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·Comcast
| So McDonals should offer an all-you-can-eat buffet for the price of their combo meal?
The analogy isn't stretched as far as you think. Broadband companies are for-profit entities. They'll do whatever they think will pull in the most revenue. If that means caps, then they'll tend to go that way. If it means killing caps, they'll tend to go that way. Believe it or not, despite their duopoly status, this isn't wrong. It just shows that someone hasn't had the guts to come up with something better.
Before you start railing about how coming out with something better is impossible, Chattanooga EPBFi is an excellent system, built in the face of Comcast and AT&T. Greenlight is an excellent system built in the face of TIme Warner Cable and CenturyLink. LUSFiber is an excellent system built in the face of Cox and AT&T. Oh, and on the private side NTS Communications' fiber projects (15/3, no caps or throttling) are excellent systems built in the face of Suddenlink and AT&T.
My point is that competition should solve the problem of halfway-decent caps, not two dozen people complaining. If it was five thousand plus people complaining, with news coverage and people threatening to drop service because their bills are now 2x higher then it becomes a PR nightmare for the corporation capping and they have to fix things, otherwise their competition will start advertising that they have no caps (e.g. Frontier vs. Time Warner Cable) and will start winning customers.
I'm all for muni fiber buildouts. I'm all for competitive carriers and breaking down regulation barriers to make them easier to start. However yakking about caps that don't even apply to you is a waste of everyone's time.
Understand my position? |
