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Comcast is already getting paid twice! Number of payments by itself is hardly meaningful... Have you never received a parcel with insufficient postage, and bee
by sliverstorm 12y ago
Comcast is already getting paid twice!
Number of payments by itself is hardly meaningful... Have you never received a parcel with insufficient postage, and been asked to pay the remainder (else it be returned to sender)?
How evil of the postal service, demanding to be paid twice (nevermind that they weren't paid in full the first time)!
- dubcanada 12y agoYou seem to be implying that people who have comcast are either not paying their bill or not paying enough. That seems to be more of a comcast issue.
- FfejL 12y agoNo, Its as if the Post Office agreed to delivery my mail at .43 a letter, but then asked me for more money when my Mom started send me 10 letters a day with the proper postage. I (and millions of others) pay Comcast a certain rate for a certain data plan. In my case, about $50/month for 50Mb down, 2Mb up, capped at 250GB per month. So if I want to watch 250G of movies in a month, at those data rates, why should I or anyone else have to pay more? I've already contracted with Comcast for that much bandwidth. The reality, of course, is that Comcast (and all other ISPs) MASSIVELY oversubscribe their own network. They don't have any where near the capacity to actually support what they sell. And they want Netflix to foot the bill for the buildout required to provide the capacity they claim they sold me.
- click170 12y agoI don't think this is a fair analogy. You don't pay the post office a flat fee for the ability to receive all packages, but from my perspective that's exactly what I pay my ISP for. Granted you do pay the post office in the form of taxes, but IMO that situation is different enough to make for a very poor analogy.