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Cable & telcos video providers have a big time weapon in the form of transfer caps. I suspect anyone who chooses to use IP video exclusively will be paying sign
by jsz0 16y ago
Cable & telcos video providers have a big time weapon in the form of transfer caps. I suspect anyone who chooses to use IP video exclusively will be paying significantly more for broadband over the next few years. The cable/telcos will calculate how much revenue they're losing on video subscribers and overlay that data on top of their transfer caps to break even. The upside is it will probably still end up saving people money. Even if broadband prices increase 20-30% being able to buy only the content you want to watch will be a savings. It might also encourage more responsible TV watching. Who's going to leave the TV on for 12-16 hour stretches if the meter is running the whole time? That could be a very positive change for society.
- lsc 16y ago>Cable & telcos video providers have a big time weapon in the form of transfer caps. And the people will scream bloody murder... in the computer infrastructure industry, you raise your prices by not lowering them quite as quickly as you could. raising prices? your customers will mutiny. I know I would. This expectation that computers, bandwidth, etc... will get cheaper and cheaper over time is strongly ingrained into the minds of consumers. push them back, and they will scream but loud. Isn't this the root of this whole net-neutrality thing? we are afraid that telcos will raise prices (by raise prices, I mean either raise prices, or provide degraded service at current prices) so we want the government to come in and regulate that sort of thing? I mean, regardless of what you think of net neutrality laws, you have to agree that it's a sign that consumers get /very angry/ if you even suggest that bandwidth prices might go up.