- Carl Icahn demands Yahoo sell for $49.5 billion.
- Intel Anti-Trust woes spread as FTC takes a look. S. Korea already on the case. This was bound to happen eventually.
- FCC free wireless Internet plan doomed to fail? I wonder.
- Creeping featurism to hit Gmail? Perhaps.
- My airplane anecdote tells of giant cloud.
- Comcast looking to deliver 100 Mbps sooner than later. I’m predicting metered service.
- Lame survey describes the obvious.
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To continue my opposition to JCD “metered internet inevitability” (in the past I posted about market forces, documented ability to profitably provide faster/cheaper/… service and difference between advanced consumer and obsolete ISP).
Now to the simple matter of implementation. Internet usage changes on short time scale. Say, ISPs agree that X$ per KB is the price and “non abusive” consumers at that moment consume Y KB per day. Well, just few months further those same “non abusive” consumers will normally use 10 Y KB per day and will not be happy to pay 10 times more. Dynamically changing pricing? Better known as “no one knows who drinks and who pays”… Those ordinary consumers will not understand it and will avoid it. And yet again, some clever business will simplify their accounting and save offering one price, all you can eat Internet through better pipes… Opposition will be eaten alive or give up on metering.
ISPs already meter our connections.
You pay for your speed. Speed*Time = total bits/month.
However many bits I can download per month, at the speed I paid for, is the metered amount of bits I’ve paid for.
If I use any fewer bits than that, then it’s my own fault for not getting my money’s worth.
You can’t avoid some thunderstorms at 60,000 ft., well above the service ceiling of all commercial and most military planes.
Never flown in small aircraft with a great view?
This photo courtesy NASA, T-Storms, tops at 50,000+ ft.
I have had a 10megabit Comcast connection for a year now, or thats what I’m supposed to be paying for. The fastest speed I ever got has been 6 megabits. My typical speed is 4-5 megabits. I find it silly to use the word “abusive” to refer to heavy downloaders. I use the Miro player formerly known as Democracy player, am I “abusing” Comcast by downloading 20gigabytes per month with Miro alone? The plan is to limit 5gb per month at $30.
I would be better off going back to dial up!