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Digital Plumber
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Minneapolis, MN
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| reply to dadkins
Re: WTF?
said by dadkins  :Subscriber pays monthly bill for - what exactly? Access to the network, but the problem is the provider gives them so much capacity that, if heavily used, it costs more than the monthly subscription fee to provide.
The content providers pay for their access to the Internet; if they should happen to have compelling content that many people want to see they already pay for the costs on their side.
If the ISPs are seeing bandwidth loads exceed their operating budget, then they need to adjust pricing for the correct group: the users generating the bandwidth demand! It's not the content provider's fault that the ISPs are underbilling for bandwidth fees. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| Exactly!
If they cannot provide a *REASONABLE* amount of use(bandwidth/traffic/data transfer) for the amount they sell the services at... something has to give!
If the *USER* is saturating the pipe, suggest/sell them a business class line(more $$$).
Charging the content provider for "normal", paid for speeds of data transfer is bullshit!
There is a shitload of free/low cost content out there that the subscriber can get ATM.
Seeing as the bills are being paid, by all parties involved, throttling normal speeds by the ISP unless more money is paid is extortion!
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