If you need to raise rates to make a little more money, fine, it happens, just be reasonable.
But stop pretending that data packets running across a switch are costing you more from one user to the next. If you were dumb enough to sign up for a "Pay per meg" connection to the internet from Sprint. Then shame on you, fold and let the next smart guy come along that doesn't make stupid business decisions. Please knock off all of this "blame it on the internet" non-sense.
IT'S THE INTERNET! It doesn't have any real utility, and merely provides a form of limited entertainment at best. I will say this..
I am not even a "heavy" user per say, I think the most I have used in a month was 19GB, and that was because of Netflix on-line. Which brings me to my point. This is all about. "How much can we squeeze out of this lemon?" The second I get hit with restrictions of this nature, I will simply "turn it off" and move on in life without the internet. If EVERYONE took this stance, WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS GREEDY ZEALOT PROBLEM.
Hopefully Verizon burns themselves on this one, but I doubt it.
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If you need to raise rates to make a little more money, fine, it happens, just be reasonable. But stop pretending that data packets running across a switch are costing you more from one user to the next. If you were dumb enough to sign up for a "Pay per meg" connection to the internet from Sprint. Then shame on you, fold and let the next smart guy come along that doesn't make stupid business decisions. Please knock off all of this "blame it on the internet" non-sense. IT'S THE INTERNET! It doesn't have any real utility, and merely provides a form of limited entertainment at best. I will say this.. I am not even a "heavy" user per say, I think the most I have used in a month was 19GB, and that was because of Netflix on-line. Which brings me to my point. This is all about. "How much can we squeeze out of this lemon?" The second I get hit with restrictions of this nature, I will simply "turn it off" and move on in life without the internet. If EVERYONE took this stance, WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS GREEDY ZEALOT PROBLEM. Hopefully Verizon burns themselves on this one, but I doubt it.