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1 year ago
in Metered Internet Is OK But Won’t Work on How To Split An Atom
Wrong. Metering IS completeley crazy. It costs money to generate the electricity - that's what you pay for. But data will travel down a wire without much assistance. Pretending otherwise is a fraud. Put differently: Pretending that you have bandwidth for sale should be a crime. Profilteering telcos oversold their available backbones by factors of hundreds for many years. Now they are whining like squealing pigs that the "illegal downloaders" (yeah, the few power users that you refer to) are actually claiming their share of (paid for) bandwidth. Suck it up, telcos. Provide the service you claim to do, or get out.
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foobar
You practically admit that bandwidth costs and telcos should suck it up (why?), yet say that it doesn't cost. Bits may move for free but maintaining the lines and building new lines is not free, and the bandwidth provided by current lines is limited. Even an elementary school child acknowledges that the usage of limited resources can and *should* cost money. I can't comprehend how your mind could've become that twisted as to not realize that.
anything new and that the "concept" isn't crazy. It's something that telcos
have been trying to get away with forever.
Hopefully, as long as everyone keeps coming out against this it will never
catch on.