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In reply to the discussion: FCC boss backs usage-based pricing for cable Internet access [View all]brooklynite
(94,452 posts)55. What makes you think your usage isn't measured?
The providor has your IP address and can measure your upload and download capacity. Every iPhone and iPad features this capability.
What SHOULDN'T happen is the need to buy a smaller bundle (which expires) and then pay higher overage rates for misjudging your need. There should be a standard usage charge, just like your electric bill.
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Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Youtube, etc need to be screaming bloody murder over this. n/t
Ed Suspicious
May 2012
#5
No doubt cable operators' streaming services won't count against the quota. n/t
BadgerKid
May 2012
#20
Maybe not to begin with but they will eventually come after them as well, that's how
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#27
It is amazing how our government agencies find ways to screw the American Public.
lookingfortruth
May 2012
#10
Usage-based pricing would permit the rich to use the internet more than the poor.
JDPriestly
May 2012
#17
Just for the record, Genachowski was appointed by Obama in 2009 to head the FCC.
Fumesucker
May 2012
#19
Public transportation. Discount passes. Both exist to get the poor/working class to work.
Fearless
May 2012
#64
You report back on that great big price cut the cable companies are giving ya, okay?
villager
May 2012
#40
And yet bandwidth per capita in the US lags far behind may other developed nations..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#57