Another "unsustainable" tale.

“The idea of uncapped is great, but when the service is offered, it is chased by abusers,” says De Nobrega

If users aren't allowed to use as much as they want to then don't call it uncapped, stupid. Why do you hold the opinion that any marketing fail on your side should constitute abuse on our part?

Also, providers don't pay per gig, so why should we? The only reason they do is 'cos they can make more money by metering bandwidth out by the gig.

“But we don’t need to let people download 750GB of content in a month. After all, that’s more [media] than they can consume in the same period.”

Here's a big fat FU to you and your perception of how much I 'should' consume Wayne. It's backwards thinking tools like you that's holding this county back.
 
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“The idea of uncapped is great, but when the service is offered, it is chased by abusers,” says De Nobrega. “People don’t look at it as allowing them to behave as they normally would without fear of running out of data. They want to see how much they can get.”

Then call it something else and not uncapped.
 
It always amuses me to see so many large companies' executives have no understanding of the industry they are in.

Heart warming.
 
Trollololololololol, or a dumbass. He has to be.

Rather, De Nobrega believes the solution to the problem of abuse lies in operators offering better capped products. “Unless you are downloading illegal content, 10GB/month is more than enough for most people,” he argues.

So the 32GB for Alpha Protocol and Shogun 2 (12 and 20 respectively) , which I legally bought on Steam and downloaded these past few days must mean I'm some super freak. What about all the stuff I watch on Youtube, legally? Imagine if we had something like Netflix, he would poop himself. How about some nice, legal, cloud backups? Several PC's, phones, media players, e-readers, and other devices that frequently download updates? The world is moving to being connected all the time, without needing to give a crap about the amount of data you send and receive. Get used to it.

De Nobrega says those that “shout the most for [uncapped services] are generally the abusers” and, by enabling them, networks’ quality of service is affected, which in turn affects the rest of the subscriber base, most of whom are “reasonable” in their usage.

LIES! The only way one can abuse an uncapped connection is by subverting their shaping, etc. If it's intended for gandmas to send 5 emails a month, you're missing the bloody point of uncapped. If your network can't handle it, don't sell it. Stop blaming your customers. The average SA person has no clue about what's really out there until they have an uncapped connection anyways.
 
I wonder the mean usage is for Wayne's group on a per-employee basis is...

I'm on 384, with two an average of two machines connected 24/7 when possible. I routinely get throttled for 'abuse'.

10 Gb? Are you sh*tting me? I ran updates on a Vista machine the other day and came close to 1.5 Gb just with that.

10 Gb wasn't anywhere near sufficient on 56k so wtF makes circus management think it's enough on broadband?

There is NO incentive for me to upgrade my connection. It's expensive, illogical and means I'll hit 'the limit' in an instant.

Africa. Always behind. Always lagging. Always the losers.

The Dark Ages...we're still experiencing them.
 
Rather, De Nobrega believes the solution to the problem of abuse lies in operators offering better capped products. “Unless you are downloading illegal content, 10GB/month is more than enough for most people,” he argues.

OMG!! Who woke up Rip Van Winckle? Its 2011 Wayne! Not 1985!!
 
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10Gb is more than enough for entry-level users - users who just want email and the odd web browsing here and there.

Heck, I'm struggling to keep within the limit of my 5Gb CellC cap... And I don't download a lot.

But for serious users/companies, 10Gb will not be enough.
 
“Unless you are downloading illegal content, 10GB/month is more than enough for most people,”
Steam? HD youtube? Linux ISOs? Online Backups? Music streaming? Updates?

Frankly anyone with a 10GB-is-enough attitude who thinks he can compete in the *uncapped* business is a complete idiot.

If the abusers are a problem then hit the top 5% with heavy shaping.
 
Steam? HD youtube? Linux ISOs? Online Backups? Music streaming? Updates?

Frankly anyone with a 10GB-is-enough attitude who thinks he can compete in the *uncapped* business is a complete idiot.

If the abusers are a problem then hit the top 5% with heavy shaping.

Pr0n?
 
“But we don’t need to let people download 750GB of content in a month. After all, that’s more [media] than they can consume in the same period.”

That's approximately 25 BR discs. I'm sure they could quite easily consume that in one month were they HD movie addicts.
 
Steam? HD youtube? Linux ISOs? Online Backups? Music streaming? Updates?

Frankly anyone with a 10GB-is-enough attitude who thinks he can compete in the *uncapped* business is a complete idiot.

If the abusers are a problem then hit the top 5% with heavy shaping.

The Internet landscape have changed.

A couple of years ago, 3Gb was enough. Nowadays it is not. Heck, 10Gb might just-just make it.

And this is *not* abusing your line. This is with normal use.
 
Someone get his e mail add and send this page to him. Maybe he will actuallly open his eyes and realise that he has no clue what's actaullY going on on the net these days
 
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