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This just shows that telco's won't solve a thing by capping bit-torrent traffic. What they need to do is stop charging too little for the bandwidth and improve
by some1else 17y ago
This just shows that telco's won't solve a thing by capping bit-torrent traffic. What they need to do is stop charging too little for the bandwidth and improve their infrastructure to support the market they expanded to.
- Retric 17y agoBandwidth is not a major cost for most large scale ISP's. The real problem is there is only so many way's for ISP's to cut costs and pissing off the customers that most use the service is unlikely to cause them to quit because they don't have any choice.
- rbanffy 17y agoThis may drive up the prices to a point an ISP can profit from moving bits from A to B.
- Retric 17y agoISP's already profit from moving bit's from A to B. They want to make as much profit as possible. ISP's have the same basic problem as the airlines. They are selling a commodity service that requires high capital costs and have little to differentiate themselves with. The only way to increase profits is to drive down costs because they can't offer much outside of "fat pipes".
- rbanffy 17y agoMost ISPs earn much more from value-added products like anti-viruses and other security programs.