rchandra
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Re: Faster
True enough...I guess I should have also included:
Many of these broadband companies are reducing $$$ rates and increasing bitrates, and it seems like they will be feeling a (lack of) profit crunch. Ergo, some have implemented per-month caps. I guess what I'm saying is, unless the upstreams discount their services even more than they have already, I look for this cap biz to proliferate throughout all residential broadband packages across all sectors.
I wonder if we can get someone to post some detail about non-NA (especially Korean or Japanese) operators, especially whether they impose any limits on their comparatively ridiculous speeds for ridiculously little $$$.
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AmeritecTech
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| Many foreign providers that I've seen offer much faster speeds at a much better price. I know in the UK in particular, broadband is not as popular as it is here, and companies have to slash prices pretty far to get buyers into the market.
I think the caps have proliferated as an attempt to get the "Joe AOL" customers, the guy who uses his broadband to get his e-mail and download Bonzi Buddy, and to discourage more sophisticated users from signing up who tend to use more of the bandwidth. The Joe AOL customers probably cost them a heck of a lot less in bandwidth, though perhaps a bit more in technical support cost.
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