The bandwidth caps ended cord cutting as a viable tactic for any home where the TV runs a lot, i.e. children are involved.
ISPs need to waive the caps during off-peak periods, similar to free unlimited nights and weekends on cell phone plans. Let people download all they want overnight. A megabyte of data transfer doesn't cost the ISP nearly as much at 3am as it does at 7pm. Then we'll stream our videos less and download more, but planning ahead like that is only a minor inconvenience.
that would make sense if most isp consumers were./ readers who can and will shift their usage to off-peak. Also, ISPs pay other uplink isps, sometimes per max capacity but sometimes per capacity used, so it isn't totally free for them.
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ISPs need to waive the caps during off-peak periods, similar to free unlimited nights and weekends on cell phone plans. Let people download all they want overnight. A megabyte of data transfer doesn't cost the ISP nearly as much at 3am as it does at 7pm. Then we'll stream our videos less and download more, but planning ahead like that is only a minor inconvenience.
that would make sense if most isp consumers were ./ readers who can and will shift their usage to off-peak. Also, ISPs pay other uplink isps, sometimes per max capacity but sometimes per capacity used, so it isn't totally free for them.