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End of Unlimited Broadband

Postby Henry88 » Tue May 31, 2016 9:49 pm

Is the End of Unlimited Broadband Coming Soon?
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Re: End of Unlimited Broadband

Postby mbozzo » Tue Jun 14, 2016 9:37 pm

I hope not. :shock:
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Re: End of Unlimited Broadband

Postby The Shadow » Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:24 am

I hope not too -- for a long time now the excuse of data caps has been that it reduces network congestion.

A 2012 report on data caps... https://www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-p ... nd-future/ ... notes that even while broadband use was increasing the costs to deliver broadband were steadily dropping. The same article questions the sense of data caps in a world where millions of people use streaming services like Netflix (and now we can add several music streaming services) and at a time when cloud services were starting to hit their stride. I would hope that the common man finds strong corporate allies in the form of companies like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, etc. because killing unlimited broadband will also severally hinder their business. And if those companies business is damaged, by extension it will also damage the paychecks the content owners get for allowing their products on those services.

There's also the current trend in thinking that we may need to consider broadband internet access a necessary service. There are a lot of services that companies primarily want people using computer access for, banking, cell phone bills, insurance, etc,; some companies even want to charge customers for receiving a paper copy of their bill or even bank statements instead of a digital copy.
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