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Ultibeam
join:2008-05-27
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Re: [Caps] Comcast tiered vs flat cap trials?

I'd rather they do away with caps as they do not serve any other purpose than limit customer choice. If there is a congestion issue, that would be investigated in a case-by-case level.

We're steadily getting to a server side (cloud) based infrastructure so caps would be anti-competitive.

Tobin
join:2003-09-21
Burlingame, CA

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Tobin

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said by Ultibeam:

I'd rather they do away with caps as they do not serve any other purpose than limit customer choice. If there is a congestion issue, that would be investigated in a case-by-case level.

We're steadily getting to a server side (cloud) based infrastructure so caps would be anti-competitive.

Cable operators in most localities have a functional monopoly, we're all aware of that obviously.

They're also hemorrhaging TV-side subscriptions, so the logical step is to discourage consumption of TV/film content via third party services. Adding transfer caps is one method...owning the content networks is another.

It's the same reason why just about all mobile carriers have capped data. They don't want you to circumvent their voice plans by using Google Voice, Skype, etc. on their network.