Heath,
It was both the supreme court and the FCC. First, the supreme court ruled,
as you said, that cable was not a communication network, so not covered by
common carriage, so they could have a monopoly on their lines. Then later
the FCC ruled the same for DSL, ironically, to increase
I have beat this drum for a long time now.the lack of competition and
regulation is leading to a growing number of abuses and practices, at least
here in the states...
And while yes, as a private company they can charge whatever they want, as has
been noted numurous times, what continues
I had forgetten it was a supreme court ruling, I had thought it was just an FCC
ruling...
If I remember correctly the crux of the arguement, was that telephone companies
wanted the cable companies to lease their lines like they had to, as cable
companies were begining to get in on providing
As a Canadian, it seems hysterical to me as well.
If bandwidth concerns were in fact misleading than you would expect
countries with a lot of competition (e.g. UK) to have ISPs all offering
unlimited bandwidth at ultra low costs. The opposite seems to be the case.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:00
Well, it is the case in France, where France Telecom, Free and other
companies have been battling it out for years...all unlimited.
2009/4/13 Patrick Delongchamp pdelongch...@gmail.com
As a Canadian, it seems hysterical to me as well.
If bandwidth concerns were in fact misleading than you
so yes, the potential exists to have our bandwidth cost us more. it always
existed. it's all a digital pipe and the content and services that use it
are getting merged. for most of my adult life, i've spent between $40 and
$100 for tv/internet. if it gets to the point that i am charged $150
it is the reality of the situation.
their are multiple concerns. one is whther or not people will have to pay
subtantially more for bandwidth.
another is, as you point out, consuming content from independent
publishers.
i think we'll still get a decent amount of bandwidth to download independent
I dont know if there are hundreds, but there are certainly plenty to choose
from via phone lines in the UK. Via cable there isnt really any choice of
companies, just Virgin, which offers higher speeds than the phone lines can
manage at the moment.
People in the UK are used to paying different
Lets look at some detail about one of the proposed plans:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500302subSection=News
In particular:
Options for 10 GB, 20 GB, 40 GB, and 60 GB a month also will be available with
overage charges of $1 per gigabyte a
Lets look at some detail about one of the proposed plans:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500302subSection=News
In particular:
Options for 10 GB, 20 GB, 40 GB, and 60 GB a month also will be available with
overage charges of $1 per gigabyte a
OK $150 a month for 'virtually unlimited' seems a tad pricey. Maybe
$75/month for 100GB is slightly more sane though, does anybody who uses a
lot of video online monitor their bandwidth to see if they get anywhere near
100GB a month?
Its expensive enough to moan at the companies involved, but
good checks and balances are always needed.
i think my point is that however they approach the billing, they need to
have prices be somewhat reasonable with the times and demands of customers.
so instead of saving money by cancelling tv, you look at it as eliminating
the service that doesnt give
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan sullele...@... wrote:
beyond all that... maybe we will all go offline and bird watch more often ;)
sull
i hope that the internet of today dies
and a new internet is formed based on the cooperative idea and Wireless
community network
I haven't been running this lately, but I used it for a while last year when
I was trying to determine a monthly upload estimate for a client. Good
bandwidth monitor:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Steve Watkins st...@dvmachine.com wrote:
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