Airwolf7
Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
 ·AT&T Southeast
| Who gives a F**k!
They are going to do whatever they want to do and we are going to bend over and take it in the a** like we always do.
If they want metered billing then that is what we are going to get.
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dr3yec
join:2002-12-19
00000
 ·CableOne
1 edit | Well I will let them know by my wallet. Any company that does meter billing. Will never see my green. Thank god I dont live in a time warner area. But I do live in a AT&T area. Since AT&T is talking meter billing. I lost interest in there service. Even with uverse coming to town. I will not pay for caps! |
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anon148123123
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Ammler 
| reply to Airwolf7
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
They need to remove the $50.00 / month for 10Down/2up & go with $5.00/month for the model/router rental & then charge for the mega, giga bytes when your start streaming data to & fro! Simple & fair. |
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k1ll3rdr4g0n
join:2005-03-19
Homer Glen, IL
| reply to dr3yec
said by dr3yec :Well I will let them know by my wallet. Any company that does meter billing. Will never see my green. Thank god I dont live in a time warner area. But I do live in a AT&T area. Since AT&T is talking meter billing. I lost interest in there service. Even with uverse coming to town. I will not pay for caps! Then what are you gonna use? Dial-up? Sneakernet Carrier pidgin? Smoke signals?....
If you don't take a stand now, and get your neighborhood together and threaten to cut their service if they don't get rid of the caps, we may as well just make HSI a luxury for rich people. Saying you will go with another provider doesn't make sense when there isn't another choice. |
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Aozora
join:2008-11-28
·Comcast
| reply to dr3yec
said by dr3yec :Well I will let them know by my wallet. Any company that does meter billing. Will never see my green. Thank god I dont live in a time warner area. But I do live in a AT&T area. Since AT&T is talking meter billing. I lost interest in there service. Even with uverse coming to town. I will not pay for caps! Quit being delusional. Vote with your wallet? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You cannot do that.
Example of me in a MAJOR big city:
Stay with Comcast: 250GB
ATT: 80GB for the DSL(only thing available in Chicago, sad, isn't it?). ATT still has no fiber in a major ass city. Obviously having a massive density is not a concern for laying fiber. All of you living in the rural areas are being lied to. ATT does not even give a crap if your city is full of people.
Satellite: Damn my online gaming is going to suck hard on this!
Dial up: Super sexy blazing speeds of 56K. What a great competitor with no caps. Let me jump on it.
I guess I can vote with my wallet... NOT!
How can you vote with your wallet? By going to dial up? I guess that is an option if you want to wait years for downloads and do not want to play a single online game or anything. If I cannot vote in a city I am wondering how those in a rural area can. |
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SLD
Premium
join:2002-04-17
·Comcast
1 edit | Uh, if you *and* everyone else would give up online gaming for a month and switch providers, I'm sure you'd be welcomed back with the service *you* want. But since you're unwilling to give up even the slightest creature comforts to fight for what you want - you're getting what *they* want. |
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jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
| reply to dr3yec
said by dr3yec :Well I will let them know by my wallet. Any company that does meter billing. Will never see my green. Thank god I dont live in a time warner area. But I do live in a AT&T area. Since AT&T is talking meter billing. I lost interest in there service. Even with uverse coming to town. I will not pay for caps! I agree with the others on this matter, you have no voice. It isn't any different than government. Only difference is people seem to think that businesses can handle you business better. When monopolies are involved: what a joke.
What if all your options are metered? Are you just ganna not have internet? I doubt one loss will do anything. For most, internet is becoming a necessity. I think this whole thing will certainly push the whole 'internet as utility' idea up.
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| reply to Airwolf7
said by Airwolf7 :If they want metered billing then that is what we are going to get. Ultimately they can/will do whatever they want. But obviously the public raising a stink about it made them take notice. Otherwise they wouldn't have stopped (or at least postponed) the trials.
The message is at least getting to them...whether they understand the message in the long-term is yet to be seen. |
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jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
| reply to anon148123123
said by anon148123123 :
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
They need to remove the $50.00 / month for 10Down/2up & go with $5.00/month for the model/router rental & then charge for the mega, giga bytes when your start streaming data to & fro! Simple & fair.
Finally! Someone who gets it! You should put your resume in for CEO of these companies. However, you did forget one thing: the price.
? for meg/gig transfer. It should be a fair price not the $1 or 2 per gig or meg that some companies are suggesting.
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Kilroy
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI
·WOW Internet and C..
| reply to anon148123123
said by anon148123123 :
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas. I don't know where you live, but on my gas bill I have a customer charge of about $10. Yes, that's right, I have to pay to be their customer. So, it doesn't matter how much I use I have to pay this charge every month, as a minimum.
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
Premium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo
 ·Skype
| Those charges go to the continued maintenance of infrastructure to supply you with gas. They have to test and refurb meters periodically and maintain the main lines that supply the houses. That's what the $10 goes toward.
Unlike gas companies though, ISPs aren't lowering their starting cost to something that's a base/maintenance cost just to provide you with access to the infrastructure. They're starting where they were for infrastructure and data costs and going from there.
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Tradition: Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid. --despair.com |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to Aozora
So what's the Major city? i have a very hard time believing that you only have only 4 choices. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to anon148123123
There is no such thing as a $0 Power or Gas bill. Even they have a minimum amount, it's not much but it's still not $0 even if you do not use any gas or power. |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| reply to anon148123123
said by anon148123123 :
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
Metered Billing does not necessarily require a $0 no usage bill. Gas/Electricity has a fixed delivery capability (ie: Infrastructure) cost as well as the variable delivery cost. Thus there should be a fixed fee to support their ABILITY to deliver that you pay independent of how much usage you use. Then you pay for your actual usage. This is the same with internet metering. You should, as you stated, pay some fixed fee for your connection and then be billed for your usage. |
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thedragonmas
join:2007-12-28
Albany, GA
| reply to anon148123123
said by anon148123123 :
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
They need to remove the $50.00 / month for 10Down/2up & go with $5.00/month for the model/router rental & then charge for the mega, giga bytes when your start streaming data to & fro! Simple & fair.
sure, one small problem, we pay a minimum for our meters weather or not we use the service, and no it does NOT go towards maintnance, i have never once seen them test a meter just to test it. heck we still have analog meters even tho the rest of the city has digital meters. not that im complaining, means if i keep my faucet on realllly slow i can use all the water i want and they wont notice a drop  |
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sml11
| reply to battleop
First - read the post, CHICAGO!
Second - I live in a suburb of Atlanta and my choices are Comcast, AT&T DSL, Satellite and a wide variety of Dial-ups; PERIOD! |
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oh_no_Mr_Bill
@verizon.net
| reply to Airwolf7
said by Airwolf7 :They are going to do whatever they want to do and we are going to bend over and take it in the a** like we always do. If they want metered billing then that is what we are going to get. Gezzzz,
Perhaps you can tell us what you really think! |
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