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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
If I use more water than my neighbor, I pay more. If I use more electricity, I pay more. It's just about paying for what is used. Would people be upset if they had been paying a flat rate for their water bill and now they had to pay for what was used?
Bandwidth isn't an infinite resource. It's not too hard to burn all of the available bandwidth on a shared coax cable like is hanging on the phone pole in your alley or is buried underground. That cable is shared with everyone in your neighborhood. Once it hits a fiber node it's shared with everyone on that node.
Your internet bill won't go up to $300. Mine hasn't and I have blown over 100GB in a month before (60 GB over my limit at the time). Here's a link to my old cable company. They have a fair policy for overages. http://www.sunflowerbroadband.com/internet/ |
Ok the difference is, this is LIGHT....not water.
And contrary to what you think you know.....there is a tremendous amount of bandwidth available on a simple cable line buried out back. Enough to take us into the next century bandwidth wise. This is just another case of capitalism gone wild....so go right ahead & cheer them on...its our funeral.
How you think you're going to sell HD PORN to your customer a year from now in 1080p if they have to first pay the subscription fee & then an extra bill on their cable line for there wife to bitch about?
You just aren't thinking ahead. This is chess & you need to think 5 moves ahead bro.