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Communist? Oh no, that's capitalism. In Soviet Russia broadband would be provided for you. It would also probably be capped much more severely, and simply turned off when you hit your limit.
There will be more broadband in the future..
Communism works. People don't.
the only broadband problem in America is that we were supposed to be fully fiber-optic years ago, but apparently it's too expensive for the ISPs/Telecoms that can buy huge fucking Television screens to put in their corporate lobby that are bigger than football fields.
Also: What Mxyzptlk said.
Fiber Optics aren't expensive to buy, but to maintain.
That's why Verizon has just about no one using it's Fi-Os down South. They charge way to fucking much.
Anyone can buy them, it's the maintenance that's a bitch.
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pay per GB will fail FAAAAAAAAAIIIIIILLLLLLL
best thing you can do is boycott it by getting DSL & when you cancel, let them know it is BECAUSE of their $ fleecing broadband plan. The only way they'll stop is if they realize they're losing more money than pay per GB would earn them.
Ah, so what you mean is that its not gonna happen in the near future; fair enough, fair enough. There is a lot of bullshit to go through at the moment just to get internet, no matter where you live it seems. But its gonna happen. Oh yes, its going to happen.
...and coming from Reaprar, that's a serious burn.
Most ISPs in the UK already give you a monthly bandwidth limit and charge extra/cut you off if you go over it. We also have what must be some of the slowest broadband speeds in the developed world and places that can't even get DSL, never mind lots of places don't have cable and lol when it comes to fibre optics.
Sucks doesn't it?
I liev in Australia. I am paying $80 a month for a 1.5MB download plan with 256k upload speed and a 70GB download cap.
If I hear another American whinge about poor internet service I'm going to buy Gabe's iChoke and strangle the lot of you.
@Reaprar
Wait. I'm an idiot because I don't want to pay PER GB?
@RJG
That sucks, but we live in a country where we can somewhat take down these crappy organizations that claim this.
What bothers me is the companies that will be affected by this, like APPLE and Microsoft and Sony. Heck, Nintendo. I buy a downloadable game a week and download any demo I can touch. As a gamer, we CONSTANTLY are using our GBs by playing just a few matches of Halo.
I thought this would be a well thought out post describing why dlc would not be the way, why hard copies of things would always sell, and why an EMP would completely destroy all your games.
Instead I got this.
I always though Comcast was terrible with their bandwith throttling, but we certainly aren't charged any extra for downloading too much.
Sucks to be you.
@EternalDeathSlayer
Actually, you're wrong there. If you go over a certain, unknown amount of bandwidth in a billing month, they will charge you for the excess. Or they did. This may have changed, but there were plenty of reports of this happening, at the start of the Comcast fiasco.
I think they're testing out a monthly pay per-GB somewhere in Beaumont, TX or something. I hope that yields bad results, because I'm not paying for movies again :)