 a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY
 ·Cingular Wireless
| reply to espaeth
Re: Most profitable quarter ever... what?! I actually addressed that very point in my post. Once again, the ideal billing model would take ALL last-mile costs into account in the fixed monthly fee all subscribers pay for the maintenance and upkeep of the last-mile network. Overages would then cover SOLELY any additional bandwidth required at a cost similar the actual costs at the edge of the backbone.
And BTW, justifications of 40-GB caps on a supposedly "high-end" cable network are quite hard to swallow, especially when small indie ISP's like TekSavvy in Canada can manage to provide caps in the 200+ GB range, and with reasonable (~ $0.10 / GB) overages without having to "educate" the consumer. Even Comcast here in the states has a 250 GB cap that will hopefully grow due to competition from companies like Verizon.
Again, I am not an all-you-can-eat plan zealot. However, I, along with others simply consider Time Warner's actions dubious, especially considering that the caps and overages they have set and justified with made-up statistics will actually RAISE many people's broadband bills, while the increased revenues do not go into capex but rather the pockets of CEO's and investors.
-a333
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