calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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Re: What?
said by ShootToThril  :Why don't they just take the road of offering different tiers and be done with it  . Let the user decide the level of service they want and pay accordingly. Because there's a difference to some end users between being able to download at high speed in occasional bursts (when surfing web pages with photos, graphics, etc.) and being able to download at high speed constantly (ripping music, watching streaming video, etc.) Both want a high-speed connection, but one wants to use it a lot more than the other, and that increased use puts higher loads on the shared parts of the ISP's network.
calvoiper
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stomp357
join:2003-04-13
Lake Charles, LA
 ·Suddenlink
| said by calvoiper :said by ShootToThril :Why don't they just take the road of offering different tiers and be done with it . Let the user decide the level of service they want and pay accordingly. Because there's a difference to some end users between being able to download at high speed in occasional bursts (when surfing web pages with photos, graphics, etc.) and being able to download at high speed constantly (ripping music, watching streaming video, etc.) Both want a high-speed connection, but one wants to use it a lot more than the other, and that increased use puts higher loads on the shared parts of the ISP's network. calvoiper Why not just give people like you a metered service, and keep us with the same as we have. You'd get your reduced service, and price, and we'd get what we pay for. |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| If an ISP wants to be successful, it should indeed continue to offer an unmetered service, though not necessarily at the same price they currently offer it.
If what you really want is a guarantee of no rate hikes, sorry. These sort of guarantees don't exist for most products, including utility services, and we aren't likely to see them for broadband.
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