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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic
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>> | One of them, Time Warner Cable, began a trial of ?Internet metering? in
>> | one Texas city early this month, asking customers to select a monthly
>> | plan and pay surcharges when they exceed their bandwidth limit. The idea
>> | is that people who use the network more heavily should pay more, the way
>> | they do for water, electricity, or, in many cases, cellphone minutes.
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15
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> I think these US heavily debt laden companies need to be wound up,
> their assets stripped and sold
> to more efficient operators because they are no longer
> providing value for money due to the heavy leveraging.
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> Someone needs to do this as an example so that it forms
> the basic template to be applied to other companies.
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> Some 90% of what you pay to these companies go as interest repayments
> and not for your services they are selling to you.
> Its a freak show done up with mirrors and huge bribes changing
> hands in government regulator departments.
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> Many countries already have 100mbit ethernet to the home and the prices
> are coming down all the time. They are not burdened by debt and so
> the free market is working fine elsewhere.
Dana Blankenhorn complains about it a lot. They sell "spectrum". Like aura...
just excuses for containing a monopoly/duopoly and fixing the prices.
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