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I'm in favor of a usage cap over application-specific discrimination.
Q: But why is a usage cap any better than paying by the byte?
But in the wireless space, many of the broadband services are fixed price with a usage cap, and the market deals with that much better than with a per-byte charge.
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On the other hand, if you seed a few clusters that are self-sufficient and keep usage high, then introduce it to others adjacent at a regular rate, you see steady growth, low churn, and a higher usage cap since far fewer people will have bounced off the product at the beginning.
Since 2008, Comcast has had a data usage cap of 250GB for all its broadband plans.
Northwestel's best package in Iqaluit offers 5 mbps and a 50 gigabytes (GB) usage cap, all for a cool C$190 $1500) per month.
But after roughly 13,000 customers found themselves unable to use their data services due to an arbitrary, unknown usage cap enacted by Verizon, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo fought back by saying that "when consumers are promised an 'unlimited' service, they do not expect the promise to be broken by hidden limitations".
Because the usage cap really does reflect to some extent what the ISP's cost structure is.
Considering that YouTube and MySpace are in the mix we can hope that usage cap is actually fair.
Sooner or later, he says, operators will have to introduce more stringent usage caps, demand a premium for better service or charge by usage.
AT&T's biggest concerns come over data usage and fear that the FCC may remove data usage caps, subsequently putting a greater strain on the company's bandwidth.
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