"Capping The Future . . . " an American perspective

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"Time Warner is planning to test a usage-based fee schedule shortly. Word has it that there will be four plans, 5GB, 10GB, 20GB and 40GB."

"Of course, one could impose caps today and still get ready for tomorrow, but as you'll see, that's not the mindset among the cable people."

Isn't it amazing? These people are complaining about the possibility of their ISP introducing cap's, and not insanely small ones, either. And here we are, sitting in sunny South Africa, the 'most developed' country in Africa, having to make do with 1GB, 2GB, 3GB, 5GB and 10GB caps. Just thought I'd give you guys something else to compare our country with.

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Cheers,
LazerFazer
 
the point is that an american 40GB account will still cost less than a south africa 1GB account
 
I wonder if its a softcap (ie, if they reach their cap do they still get unlimited local)
 
Yeah, but that 5gb cap is going to be for the granny to check here email, while here 1-3gb is already a pretty high-end package (faster than dial-up woot!)
 
LazerFazer said:
"Time Warner is planning to test a usage-based fee schedule shortly. Word has it that there will be four plans, 5GB, 10GB, 20GB and 40GB."

"Of course, one could impose caps today and still get ready for tomorrow, but as you'll see, that's not the mindset among the cable people."

Isn't it amazing? These people are complaining about the possibility of their ISP introducing cap's, and not insanely small ones, either. And here we are, sitting in sunny South Africa, the 'most developed' country in Africa, having to make do with 1GB, 2GB, 3GB, 5GB and 10GB caps. Just thought I'd give you guys something else to compare our country with.

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Cheers,
LazerFazer
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Ha ha I haven't even read the other responses but your post does make me realise how two people can see exactly the same story in two different ways. Glass half full, half empty situation.

You see us already having caps and the US looking into it as us being backwards and behind the times. I, correctly I reckon, see it as us having a lot more foresight, even as a developing country, to realise that bandwidth is not an endless "resource" and has to be managed.

The US now looks at following "our lead" and you use it as an opportunity to knock our country!

Strange!
 
LancelotSA said:
You see us already having caps and the US looking into it as us being backwards and behind the times. I, correctly I reckon, see it as us having a lot more foresight, even as a developing country, to realise that bandwidth is not an endless "resource" and has to be managed.
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I agree that bandwidth needs to be managed especially expensive international bandwidth. I think that the caps in South Africa are too small but hopefully SEACOM will help increase caps. I think that there are also a lot more things that the telecoms guys can do to help manage bandwidth, especially international bandwidth. What about making local hosting cheaper etc?
 
LancelotSA said:
Ha ha I haven't even read the other responses but your post does make me realise how two people can see exactly the same story in two different ways. Glass half full, half empty situation.

You see us already having caps and the US looking into it as us being backwards and behind the times. I, correctly I reckon, see it as us having a lot more foresight, even as a developing country, to realise that bandwidth is not an endless "resource" and has to be managed.

The US now looks at following "our lead" and you use it as an opportunity to knock our country!

Strange!
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You are joking, right?
 
LancelotSA said:
No!

And hj2k_x, you and I went through this already on another thread if I recall. Good to see the Americans are coming around to our way of thinking.

I think I told you before, nothing in life is free!
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Hehe, I remember our discussion from the previous thread vividly. I was not aware that your general outlook on broadband was like that though. Hectic.

Needless to say, I don't think I have to tell you, that I don't agree with your stance at all ;)
 
LancelotSA said:
And hj2k_x, you and I went through this already on another thread if I recall. Good to see the Americans are coming around to our way of thinking.

I think I told you before, nothing in life is free!
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While I don't think there is any dispute about the fact that R/MB is more in ZA than we would like - Lancelot makes a good point:
Capping of internet access is a very good way to manage traffic volumes on a network and allows fairly equitable distribution of the resources.

Goes to show that this capping thing that we've got here is really not as backward as you think.
 
ambo said:
Goes to show that this capping thing that we've got here is really not as backward as you think.
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What is backward is the ridiculously low caps that we have, and the price we pay for it, not the capping itself. I'd like to see what Americans say when they have 3gig caps, I'm sure they'll say it is retarded.
 
our restrictions are just a bit WILD imho - nevermind the costs.

i'm all for capping the "right way" - but not 1,2,3gb - no no no.

what is the use of uncapped for everyone if the network is crawling 24/7?
 
[OUPA]MrNutz;1549609 said:
what is the use of uncapped for everyone if the network is crawling 24/7?
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True. Things are aweful sometimes at the end of the month. ADSL connection slows down sometimes and is not as reliable as usual. Decent caps. The American ones don't seem to bad. After you hit your cap the topup bandwidth should not be expensive and the more you buy the cheaper is should get. None of this R70 a gig nonsense!
 
qinglung said:
What is backward is the ridiculously low caps that we have, and the price we pay for it, not the capping itself. I'd like to see what Americans say when they have 3gig caps, I'm sure they'll say it is retarded.
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Exactly.
 
LancelotSA said:
Ha ha I haven't even read the other responses but your post does make me realise how two people can see exactly the same story in two different ways. Glass half full, half empty situation.

You see us already having caps and the US looking into it as us being backwards and behind the times. I, correctly I reckon, see it as us having a lot more foresight, even as a developing country, to realise that bandwidth is not an endless "resource" and has to be managed.

The US now looks at following "our lead" and you use it as an opportunity to knock our country!

Strange!
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Its hard to imagine a more stupid thing for you to have said.

The american telcos are not looking at this because it is a good solution, they are looking at it because it would allow them to embezzle the funds that government gave them rather than spend it on new infrastructure. Kind of like telkom.

This is not forward thinking. There is nothing positive about this action. You are deluded.
 
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