Re: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

Usage caps are far better than flat-rate. But I wish ISP's in my area offered an optional reduced-price plan for those of us who don't use anywhere near 5 or 10 gigs, perhaps a cost-based access fee plus metering per 100MB unit. Caps seem to be set so high that light users still subsidize the heavy users to quite a large degree. Speed throttles should go away, and subscribers should get volume discounts as they use more, rather than get labeled as "abusers" and hit with punitive "excess bandwidth charges". I can't think of one other industry where it is common practice for the vendor to regulate how fast consumers can use their product, and complain when they use too much. When everything shakes out, bandwidth will be sold just like electricity. ISP's adopting this model will grab the 'normal' users and get people to move from dialup to broadband. The remaining ones will be left struggling to feed the 'all-you-can-eat' crowd, who will continue to use $50 worth of 'free' bandwidth volume to transmit a $15 DVD across the country. JC

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 09:49, Gord Belsey wrote:
> FYI As Bob mentions, it's the status quo in Canada. Even high speed
Received on Tue Jan 21 14:40:25 2003