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What's wrong with charging more for people who use more?

• PeterStuer 7y ago
  That is not the point. Consumption based charging would be fine and which is exactly what we had before. These 'unlimited' plans are not that. These are a free pass to ditch your more 'undesirable' customers onto your competition. Yes, that can be because they use more, but also because they use less of your 'value-added' high margin services, because they use 'non-mainstream' data (less edge-cached), less data for which you receive kickbacks, consume not more but at peak times, or simply because you do not like them for whatever.
• olyjohn 7y ago
  When I pay for bandwidth to my house, I should get that bandwidth, and be able to use it for whatever I want. I don't care if they oversold their network. It's not my problem. I should not get punished for using the bandwidth I paid for. If people who barely use the internet are paying the same as me, that's not my problem either. If ISPs are suffering congestion, that's because they did a bad job designing their network for the amount of demand they have. Throttling is just a way for them to cheap out on their network, but sell "gigabit" internet to everybody. If they can't serve me 1 gigabit, they are selling shitty service. If they want to charge for X amount of bits per month, that should be the up front pricing scheme. I should not be paying for a "1 gigabit" plan, but have the amount of bits that I can use be buried in the fine print. Especially when bits per month is the REAL indicator of what they are selling.