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I'm amazed how comfortable people are with low usage customers subsidizing high usage customers. It strikes me as profoundly unfair. ISP's are no angels, I know
by acgourley 18y ago
I'm amazed how comfortable people are with low usage customers subsidizing high usage customers. It strikes me as profoundly unfair. ISP's are no angels, I know, but I'm not talking about any specific case, just the notion of caps in general.
As long as the pricing is fair I think tiered/capped traffic agnostic pricing is fine. I think some people are caught up in their general disgust with what they see as regional monopolies, and directing it at this general issue.
- chadgeidel 18y agoI completely agree. They can either have (publicly advertised!) caps OR they can do traffic shaping. Not both. Honestly ISP's need to move their entire offering to a "business-class" level of service (tiered, published data prices, some level of uptime guarantees), without the price gouging. I don't mean more data/more uptime, just more visibility. Let me pick my "tier" and then provide me that service.
- javanix 18y agoCaps are perfectly fine as long as they are sufficient - but what happens when the ISPs want to better utilize their bandwidth, and decide to lower their limits, rather than increasing their capabilities? There's no regional competition to worry about, so there would be no incentive to add capabilities when the alternative is basically free.