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In reply to the discussion: FCC boss backs usage-based pricing for cable Internet access [View all]brooklynite
(94,535 posts)42. Sorry, your argument doesn't work...
The Rich will ALWAYS be able to buy more, unless you're going to impose pricing limits. They can go to more movies, sign up for more TV channels, and get faster internet speeds. The question isn't whether the Rich will be able to afford more usage, it's whether more of the Poor will be able to buy usage to start. All-you-can eat pricing is based on a midpoint price that covers the usage of MOST users: some will use more and some will use less. Cable and DSL service run about $35-45 a month for everyone: what if the entry point for a smaller allotment was $10-$15? Would more lower income customers be able to afford participation at all?
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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