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Re:An Update on Twitch in Korea by Xelynega on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:45AM (#38541400)
Market dominance is probably the reason.

Canada had crown ISPs that offered unlimited data plans, so telcos has to do the same to compete and the idea of a fixed cap internet plan is rodiculous.

When mobile data became popular there were no crown telcos anymore(other than SaskTel) so the prices started ridiculously high and were never brought down(other than in Saskatchewan)

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Re:An Update on Twitch in Korea by MichaelZuo on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:12AM (#38542819)
> the idea of a fixed cap internet plan is rodiculous.

Why? As far as I understand in Canada there are genuine costs incurred per extra bit of data transferred.

Legal liability costs, peak congestion costs, etc...

It may be a very very tiny amount per bit, but when multiplied hundreds of billions of times, they become noticeable costs.

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