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[ NNSquad ] Re: Imagine an ISP minus the "bandwidth hog" rhetoric
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Imagine Free Press not being so hypocritical on usage caps. http://techliberation.com/2009/06/18/free-press-hypocrisy-over-metering-internet-price-controls/ The term “bandwidth hog” is a relative term
referring to the top 1 to 5 percentile. A bandwidth hog is someone who
takes 10, 100, or 1000 times as much network capacity as the average user of
his/her time. So while tomorrow’s average Internet users might look
like today’s bandwidth hog in absolute terms, they’re really not
bandwidth hogs. George Ou From: nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net@nnsquad.org
[mailto:nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of
Tim Karr Because today's
"bandwidth hogs" are tomorrow's average Internet users. One
ISP actually encourages -- not punishes -- user innovation: Quote: “The natural
model when you have a simple duopoly capturing the majority of the market is
segmentation: maximize ARPU [average revenue per user] by artificially limiting
service in order to drive additional monthly spending.”
-tk |