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The idea that everyone should simply pay the same regardless of use is wrong. Cell phone plans have data tiers and pay-per-use. There's no reason cable compani
by hnnh44 8y ago
The idea that everyone should simply pay the same regardless of use is wrong.
Cell phone plans have data tiers and pay-per-use. There's no reason cable companies can't do this either, except it prevents them from fudging costs.
I probably use as much bandwidth as anybody else, and I'd prefer to be accurately charged for it rather than have my provider pull shady net neutrality things or try to become an ad network or buy a media company to "bundle" their services or sell my data to third parties to juice their income.
- ghaff 8y agoI don't necessarily disagree but go back to any of the discussions on here about data caps and read all the screams about stifling innovation, etc., etc. I see both sides. Honestly, I think there was a better argument for it when the heavy users were a small percentage of users downloading a bunch of "Linux distributions" on bittorrent. Today, it's more likely to be a family that uses Netflix a lot. Metering would change usage for better or worse and the fact is that a lot of domestic phone plans don't have caps, or at least meaningful ones any longer, although they may throttle data at some point.