QOTD: How Much Would You Pay for Uncapped Net?

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If they start charging a rate for "un-capped" they better be ready to start charging for "under-capped". Yer gonna bill be for 20gig if I use 10?

Just gonna be another boon for class action lawyers. If they ain't careful they're gonn have to bill by the kb...yah...and that means itemizing...and that means the user gets permission to reject advertising bandwith......As always, more regulation will bite them in the Arse eventually..
 
If they make a 20gig cap they're gonna have to cut rates for the 5gig users. AND they'll have to itemize your bill. AND they'll have to let you block non-voluntary usage (ADVERTISING). If they can't do that......here come the class action vultures....And they'll loose their ass in the cases. They'll need a whole new structure for billing by the KB not the gig.

The ones that CAP....Deserve to be attacked by lawyers.
 
Heres what I don't get: Why cant the internet in the US be like the internet over in, say, Europe? People say we (comparatively) have high prices and low internet speeds because our infrastructure is inferior. I think the only reason is because ISPs get more money out of us this way. Its perfectly cheap and easy to get much higher speeds anywhere in the us. Japan, for instance, can get 160Mbps per home for an installation cost to the ISP (J:Com) of just $20.

Great new york times article on that.

Really though, if they can do it, why can't we?
 
Vote from Bulgaria - 20$ for 50 mbit/s, you amreicans must shoot couple of bullets in your ISP and they will learn how to behave properly with the clients :)
 
$250 a month for a 1/4MB...haven't signed up yet, since I'm waiting for the SEACOM cable to land.

I'm in S.Africa...and this is a good price apparently.
 
$250 a month for a 1/4MB...haven't signed up yet, since I'm waiting for the SEACOM cable to land.

I'm in S.Africa...and this is a good price apparently.
 
I pay just under £20 (~$30) a month for a ~13MBit connection at the moment. I've paid somewhere in the region of £17-£34 ($25 to $50) a month for the fastest connection I can get for the past ten years or so. None of my connections have ever been capped and I wouldn't ever want one that was. I'll carry on paying $25-$50 for the fastest internet connection I can get for the foreseeable future, however, I would never go with something that's capped.
 
I am one of the early adopters of DSL. I have been paying 45.10 including taxes of a 5m download and 1m upload with unlimited bandwidth use. OK, its not the fastest connection there is, but at least, I can download 150gig a month without overcharge... 😀
 
Cable companies put caps in place because they feel people are drifting away from cable TV. WELL DUH!!!!!!!! When cable costs me $100+ per month for 1 TV...and internet is $42.95 with a 250Gb cap....chances are that I will find what I want to watch online.

Cable companies need to stop raping consumers with monopolies of service.....and be competetive. If cable cost less....more people would have it. They wouldnt need to worry so much about caps then.

On the other side of this coin..... daship made a great point. technology grows so fast...that online is the new way to communicate. And cable companies want to regulate communication?

Cheers,

-Particleman
 
I would never pay for capped and currently don't, since I live in Sweden. It's not the advertised speed unless the speed can be maintained 24/7 without hitting a wall of slowness or having to pay extra money. "Yeah, it's 24Mb/s, but only for 2 hours a day...then it switched to 512Kb/s for the rest of the day unless you give us another $150 a month...".
If they truly were after pirates, they would cap uploads instead since that wouldn't affect most people as much.
 
Depends on my connection speed. I'm currently hat 1.5meg and it's worth the $20 promotional deal I have. When it shoots to $42/mo I'll probably cancel. I would be willing to pay $42/mo if they brought my speed up to 6meg.
 
I started paying around $25US back in '95 for 10mb/1mb. Over the next 10 years, my speed was capped lower and lower while the pricing went higher and higher. Currently, I'm paying about $65 for "turbo" at 14mb/768k.

If TW impliments this crap, I'll drop them faster than they can send out a tech to pick up the cable modem and FOUR DVRs. They can say goodbye to my avg $200/mth total bill.
 
Right now I pay 19.95 for uncapped internet. The speed is pretty slow (1.3mbps), but it's cheap! I'd only pay about $10 more a month for 10X the speed. I can't see myself ever paying more than $35 a month. That'd be for 25+mbps. I'm not a pirate so I'm not downloading garbage all the time. Hulu and online gaming work just fine with my $20 connection.
 
$10 A Month, then 20 cents for each gigabyte I download. 100GB=$30/month, 200GB=$50/month, and any more or less as your heart desires.
I don't mind paying per bit, as long as it is reasonable (cheap).
 
no increase for caps, each year prices go up but no extra service or improvement, MONOPOLY i have the option of picking my cable channels and getting rid of all those channels I dont want. Plus, I still have like 70 plus channels and they don't have military channel on my regular cable,
 
For a real unlimited service, I would pay between $50-$80 depending on speed. I currently have RRTurbo in NE Ohio, and I'm very afraid that my $50 will become $150 because I use about 3.0-3.2 TB on average each month.
 
the US infrastructure is pathetic compared to almost every developed nation. I want faster speeds, and screw capping. It should be illegal. I'm paying for a connection speed, not the amount of data.
 
In my country (Malaysia), we use Streamyx broadband from Telekom Malaysia.

We don't really have capped Net;

The only "capped" net available is 512kbps at RM44 ($12) monthly, measured in 60 hours use (not in GBs). More than that, you'll charged at RM0.01 a minute. This broadband plan is probably the most popular among us.

The uncapped net I'm using now is 1Mbps is at RM99($30).
And the fastest you can get with Streamyx broadband is 4 Mbps at RM268($75).

Other option is Celcom/TMNet 3G broadband, with 3.6Mbps speed, at RM99 ($30) per month
 
Some of you people are nuts!! Why pay so damn much?? I currently pay $54/month for internet - which I think is WAAYYYYYY too much. This is the lowest priced plan availible to me!! Internet access used to be around $10 to $15/mo - yeah it was dial up, but we shouldn't have to pay MORE for technology that is now the STANDARD. In fact, I pay more for broadband "high speed" internet than I did when it was first introduced over 8 years ago! My ISP (charter) started capping a while ago with no drop in price. As far as I'm concerned this is the SUCK. I'm looking to switch to something else.
 
$20 per month for unlimited speed.

Slash 75% of the TimeWarner executive's salaries and bonuses and use that money to upgrade their network.

Place a cap on how much a corporation executive can make. Say the highest paid executive can only make 20X what the lowest paid employee makes at the company. That includes all bonuses, stocks and company paid insurance. This amount is more than fair for that position.
All money made by a business is placed back into the business and is used for REAL research and development and expanding and bettering the product.
Think about it...if all the money was kept inside the corporation and out of the excutive's pockets then would we really be having bankrupt companies right now? Or would they be self sufficient in supporting themselves?
 
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