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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If caps reduce on-line time by the end-user, advertising revenues will fall (less people browsing for less time...). Those counting on advertising revenue (Google, et al) may be up in arms if on-line time decreases.
If on-line time is related to advertising clicks, those counting on those clicks may buy into the ISP market and eliminate the "caps."
One can only hope that one of the ISPs could create a nice portal (or buy one) so that they could get advertising revenue they do not currently get and leave the cap off...
The issue of whether or not the p2p use is damaging is to note how much SPAM costs companies that have to pay for each kb... If 1% is using 50% of the bandwidth and such use is "illegal," I say down with the 1%. If the 1% is kids playing counterstrike 24/7, then their use is legal.
Either way, I agree that the available bandwidth can not handle everyone using the "max" bandwidth promised by their ISP...
Edited 2008-07-08 20:03 UTC