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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
It's not going to stifle anything. ISP's bandwidth limits are going to increase as necessary. Our cable company used to have a 5GB bandwidth limit. It's gradually gone up over the years. There's absolutely no reason that the top 2% of bandwidth users shouldn't have to pay a premium. It's not that expensive and I don't mind.
From the link I posted "98.9% of users had less than 40 Gigs of bandwidth usage, 86.98% of used less than 10 Gigs, 49.46% of used less than 1 Gig of bandwidth usage per month."
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You're opening a Pandora's box to bandwidth & connection hijacking.
Hackers could write a simple script to reload a youtube video every 2 minutes & install it on someones computer....next thing you know you got customers with $500,000 bills.
Apparently you weren't around during the AOL $2 per hour days. It caused severe corruption
Bandwidth issues should lead to new innovation & infrastructure. It should not lead to charges which are only a temporary solution to a growing problem.
This will stifle new technologies & EVERYONE outside of the ISP's agree with this principle. I listened to a hearing on CSPAN radio for 3 hours in traffic the other day. The only supporters of tiered charges were related to the telecom industry.
And see....here you are...a telecom employee & promoting a tiered program. Go figure.