Why do we have a cap?

[Nod]

Let me explain my reasoning:
1. There is caps because Telkom wants to save bandwidth.
2. Bandwidth is 192kb/s, 384kb/s, 512kb/s or 1024kb/s and not the 3Gb cap, right? Bandwidth is the speed at which you connect.
3. So, if Telkom is trying to save on bandwidth, there is two ways to go about it:
3.1 Supply only low connection rates - can only use somuch in a month
3.2 Limit the amount of data transfered - you have speed, but not the distance

So it seems that they have a bottleneck somewhere, and are "developing" products around this problem.

This why we, IMO, have a cap problem in SA. Telkom does not have the bandwidth to give internally in SA, and thats why we are struggling to get any joy out of them. They can't give something they don't have.

Does this sound like a logical reason why we have problems?
Should ICASA/DoC not consentrate on getting more data networks into the country?

 

[pupa]

The bottleneck is a self inflicted scheme called shaping and throttling to saveguard it's own rervenue services like diginet, VoIP, Tripple play etc. Telkom want internet users to pay for all these other services at huge expense to fill their coffers more. Therefore their corrupt, monopolistic ways to defraud the consumer of revenue. Nothing less than corporate criminality aproved signed and sealed by goverment

 

[stoke]

Capping was traditionally intorduced by some ISP's in the world to prevent "abuse".
Abuse was defined as exxessive use of the resources available to an ISP.

To make matters worse, some bulk dealers in bandwidth started selling off bandwidth by the GB instead of by the throughtput. It became a cool way to sell bandwidth because it eliminated the "maximum garauntee'd throughtput" gaurantee's that used to be sold. Now the focus moved to how much data may be transferred and the real product being sold [i.e. throughput] was lost in murky "you have used too much bandwidth" concerns.

The sale of bulk bandwidth in a per GB methodology justified the original ISP Cap, and the Cap became entrenched with ISP's claiming that they buy per GB, so they should limit per GB as well.

This is all utter BS. ISP's should pay for throughput, and so should we.
There is no actual need to do the capping thing, other than greed.
Capping has resulted in internet busy times and interent doing absolutely nothing [idle = waste] times.

It's stupid, and is the product of misunderstanding and greed resulting in product degradation.