[IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: David Ian Hopper [imhopper@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:16 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

Welcome to the rest of the world.  Outside the US, unmetered access is
far from the norm, from dialup to broadband.  In India, I pay about
$75/month for 2 Mbps downstream access on an unmetered plan -- that's
the fastest a private person can get.  The unlimited plans are not
widely advertised, and priced well out of the range of even those
people who are "rich" enough to have Internet access at all.  The most
popular plans are 300 rupees (about 7 bucks at the current exchange)
for 256KB.

On one hand, when you have a lot of people and a limited series of
tubes, there have to be limits.  On the other, if Comcast is telling
the truth that only a tiny percentage of their users are "heavy"
users, then they won't piss off very many -- and are likely to get a
significant number of those to pay extra for unlimited access, since
there are relatively few options for broadband in a given
neighborhood.

- Ian.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:47 PM, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
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>  From: Ralph [rs9174@gmail.com]
>  Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM
>  To: David Farber
>  Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
>
>  250GB would give you the bandwidth to download how many movies per
>  month?  0? 1? 5? 25?
>
>  Ralph Sierra
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