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Broadband CEOs Admit Usage Caps Are Nothing More Than A Toll On Uncompetitive Markets (techdirt.com)
Though giant ISPs such as AT&T and Comcast continue to impose caps on users with several of their data plans, a crop of local ISPs is no longer hesitating from admitting that there is no justification for these caps as the cost to provide broadband services has only dropped in the past years. From a TechDirt article (condensed): "The cost of increasing [broadband] capacity has declined much faster than the increase in data traffic," says Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, an independent ISP based in Santa Rosa, Calif. [...] Frontier Communications CEO Dan McCarthy adds, "There may be a time when usage-based pricing is the right solution for the market, but I really don't see that as a path the market is taking at this point in time." Suddenlink CEO Jerry Kent said, "I think one of the things people don't realize [relates to] the question of capital intensity and having to keep spending to keep up with capacity. Those days are basically over, and you are seeing significant free cash flow generated from the cable operators as our capital expenditures continue to come down."
you forget to mention that torrents can be downloaded off peak so as not to strain the infrastructure during critical business hours...
... spent on all the equipment and staff directed to data measurement and billing that tracks usage and imposes the caps, that recoups the costs spent on... wait.
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
If a company is in a monopoly situation it got there because it's the best. Like me with my legendary POS software that's so brilliant people pay me to let them work on it.
Quit whining you commie loser.
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