calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
 ·Comcast Formerly ..
| reply to KrK
Re: So I crawled out from under my rock last night
Hopefully, there will be others. They will come faster if the existing providers take their market for granted and screw their customers. (In much the same manner the Asian auto manufacturers stormed the US when the "big three" kept building models Americans didn't really want.)
There may be a more telling arrow in your quiver, though, HALG. Upon reflection, it would seem that caps are just a rate tool to suck blood from heavy (and presumably more "attached") users. Time of day pricing (or throttling) is a much more responsive approach to true capacity concerns, and while throttling may be difficult, it's hard to believe that my ISP can count all my bits but not be able to pigeonhole them into hourly boxes....
Calvoiper
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
·Cox HSI
 ·AT&T Southwest
| Agreed there!
They want people who actually put the connections to use to have to pay much higher rates (and, like your supposition, it will probably work because they are the 'attached' users) while still making a lot of money on people who are just casual surfers and emailers.
They don't have to worry about stiff competition forcing them to be competitive on prices, nor offer bang for the buck. They can sit back and charge as much as the market will bear and deliver as little as they can get away with.
The situation doesn't look like it's going to improve soon, but hopefully, longterm, it will.
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