jp10558
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join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY
| reply to RJ44
Re: Excellent.....
Well, yes, but NYSEG isn't saying $50 a month for the line and up to 100KWh included, then $5/KWh over ... It's more like $10 for the hook up and some smallish amount $0.20 per KWh from the start IIRC...
I think the general consensus is that caps are a horrible idea, but a reasonable line fee (say like the line fee for your phone... $7/month in rural NY) and then a reasonable per GB charge ($0.25??) would be ok.
But the carriers want it both ways... Grandma pays $50 for internet and her 5GB, heavy user pays $50 + $2 per GB over... And the overage charge is just crazy high in relation to the cost of transfer, which as the article notes keeps going down...
And this would also allow night rate pricing which might actually help congestion when of course caps *don't*.
And the really huge downloaders would actually pay more for more use while the really light users would save money. But that would be fair rather than just sneakily raising rates for everyone.
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