Are download limits anti-competitive?
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 at 6:05 amLegitimate online video services have already been slow in coming to Canada, but because of download limits being imposed by the country’s major internet service providers, they may never really get here.
Many of the country’s largest ISPs recently did away with unlimited download offerings in favour of consumption-based models, where users are billed extra if they exceed a given cap. The move, they say, is being made in order to cope with ever-growing internet usage and capacity problems, which are requiring continual reinvestment in their networks.
Okay this idea of download caps are about as out dated of a concept one person can have. What with the advent of the movie download and the streaming video and music, a user will burn through that in no time, therefore adding headaches and expense for the users and increasing profits for the ISP. One thing that really could help the Canadian ISP’s or at least the one ones I have come into contact with in my short stay here in the great white north, is to stop over filling their servers and stop trying to get 100 users in a server designed for 50. And most of all get over the silly idea that capping the flow of information is somehow going to help the subscribers, Baldy.
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