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There's no free lunch. If you want to start metered home internet connections with overages akin to cellular data plans, keep pushing this argument. The old ba
by cookiecaper 9y ago
There's no free lunch. If you want to start metered home internet connections with overages akin to cellular data plans, keep pushing this argument.
The old bandwidth-based pricing model has been inadequate for a long time. Net non-neutrality may be the only way to save it, which doesn't mean it's necessarily a worthwhile tradeoff. I think I'd rather have non-discriminatory metered billing than unlimited access to NBC News and RT but $0.10/GB to ABC News and NPR.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y agoWell, yeah, of course neutral metered billing would be better than non-neutral "flat" billing, precisely because there is no free lunch. On average, the price should be the same anyway. And you can implement protection of customers against surprising bills without actual flat rates (allow them to go over the limit, but the next month they have to chose to either get a hard cap, or buy a larger package, for example).