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In reply to the discussion: FCC boss backs usage-based pricing for cable Internet access [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)53. A la carte pricing for cable? Now that I could go for.
We have a higher bandwidth capacity because we watch Netflix instead of having cable.
I'm pretty sure we pay a higher rate for our higher bandwidth capacity. We just had the capacity increased somehow.
We had cable TV for a year and hardly used it. The programming was just awful. So we switched to Netflix and internet.
Do you watch your cable and use your internet at the same time?
Couldn't you get a combined package for both your internet and cable?
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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