‘Do away with ADSL capping’
Mike Lawrie, speaking as a personal ADSL user, said that capping should be done away with on the ADSL service. Lawrie also asked for port prioritization to be abolished.
Lawrie argued that there is no external auditing on the Telkom bandwidth measuring, and that many mistakes can slip through. In support of this argument Lawrie read out various erroneous figures from his Telkom ADSL usage statistics and noted that there is no mechanism in place for a user to verify and query these figures.
He also noted that the capping procedure costs money and that it is the consumer who has to pick up the bill for this cost at the end of the day.
Lawrie asked ICASA, that should they support the implementation of any form of cap, that local traffic should at least be uncapped and the cap increased. He stated that users should be able to top up their bandwidth and that the top up mechanism must be simple and quick.
To ensure innovation there should be adequate bandwidth on the local ADSL offerings to give developers the freedom to develop new ‘killer applications’. Here Lawrie supports the view of many other experts that ample bandwidth and usage allowances are needed to inspire innovation.
Lawrie concluded his presentation with the words ‘No Cap, No Cap, No Cap’.
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