I think everyone is missing the point. The current ISP pricing models are based on a fixed amount of anticipated bandwidth usage per-customer. If content providers start streaming movies and a lot of other large-bandwidth content, the available bandwidth will be used up quickly and the Service Providers will need to spend $$$ increasing their infrastructure.
What Bellsouth is saying is that they want to try and recover this money from the content provider who are making the money (via advertising, subscriptions etc...), not directly from the consumer.
The important thing here is that Service Providers aren't going to improve their infrastructure with their own money. The more bandwidth they determine you will use, the more you're going to have to pay for using it.
Bellsouth already has several broadband pricing options for different connection rates.
Up to 256 Kbps/128 Kbps - $24.95/mo Up to 1.5 Mbps/256 Kbps - $32.95/mo Up to 3 Mbps/384 Kbps - $37.95/mo Up to 6 Mbps/512 Kbps - $46.95/mo
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The people doing these studies (on both sides) only continue to get funding as long as the "prove" the point the people funding want them to prove.
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I think everyone is missing the point. The current ISP pricing models are based on a fixed amount of anticipated bandwidth usage per-customer. If content providers start streaming movies and a lot of other large-bandwidth content, the available bandwidth will be used up quickly and the Service Providers will need to spend $$$ increasing their infrastructure.
What Bellsouth is saying is that they want to try and recover this money from the content provider who are making the money (via advertising, subscriptions etc...), not directly from the consumer.
The important thing here is that Service Providers aren't going to improve their infrastructure with their own money. The more bandwidth they determine you will use, the more you're going to have to pay for using it.
Bellsouth already has several broadband pricing options for different connection rates.
Up to 256 Kbps/128 Kbps - $24.95/mo
Up to 1.5 Mbps/256 Kbps - $32.95/mo
Up to 3 Mbps/384 Kbps - $37.95/mo
Up to 6 Mbps/512 Kbps - $46.95/mo