Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 14:12 UTC
So should you pay up to $35 for their lowest 5GB plan, you just might be able to actually watch two HD films. Of course you can go over your limit if you're willing to pay $1 per additional gigabyte, a markup over cost of only 1,000 to 1,500% by Time Warner Cable. That's a bad deal however you slice it -- unless you work in marketing.
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Well, I don't want to be a telco apologist, but our situation is quite different from South Korea. Not only their infrasturcture is quite recent (because of the Korean War), but the korean telcos have far less area to cover. South Korea isn't much bigger than Maine, yet there's about about 1/6th of the american population in that area... No wonder why they got badass Internet.
That said, capping isn't that bad, as long as the cap makes sense. 5 GB is quite ridiculous. However, I've got a 200 GB cap, and it's definitely more than enough. Enough headroom to do whatever I want, yet prevent people from bandwidth-raping the ISP.
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2006-05-11
Isn't there an alternative to these greedy bastards? I've never used the internet outside the U.S. I always hear about the wonderful, cheap internet in Korea. Why can the telcoms and cable operators run everything here?
For more reasons than this, America is going to hell, and I doubt a change in the white house will signifcantly slow the trip south.