Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming

Re:Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming by peteretep on Saturday December 05, 2015 @02:40AM (#10681219)

Worth pointing out that this is largely only an issue in countries without proper competition. To get away with a low cap in a competitive market you have to compete on price.

Unpopular opinion: I'd be happy to be capped at 10GB "fair usage" for a substantially reduced fee. Otherwise I'm just subsidising much heavier users.

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Re:Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming by awqrre on Saturday December 05, 2015 @03:10AM (#10681267)

I'd be ok with that if they would be required to charge a true fair cost... but then 10GB would probably be basically free and cable companies would not like that. They are only doing caps to increase profits, not because the network is overloaded.

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Re:Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming by peteretep on Saturday December 05, 2015 @06:31AM (#10681590)

Nobody should be required to charge a true fair cost. Competition should exist that makes that the workable choice.

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Re:Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming by awqrre on Saturday December 05, 2015 @09:48AM (#10682005)

That would be an even better solution (to stop forcing monopolies) but I'm not sure which of the two would be more likely to happen.

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Re:Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming by Lionleaf on Saturday December 05, 2015 @02:56AM (#10681240)

How are you subsidizing the heavy users when they don't cost more to the provider? Bandwidth is not a scarce resource.

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