When You Measure Broadband Caps In Terms Of How Many Emails, Something's Wrong
from the that's-not-broadband dept
We've already talked about how low it appears some ISPs are making broadband "caps." Doing so seriously destroys the value of a broadband connection and will likely backfire on the ISPs who provide it. But, for those companies that are putting in place such low broadband caps -- a small suggestion: when discussing how much the caps allow, listing out how many emails you can send or receive under the cap is probably a bad idea. If the cap is so low that the number of emails is even worth mentioning, you've got a serious problem.
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What??
Silly ISP's, stop trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle. You made it available and they came, now live up to your agreements.
PS: So far I haven't had any trouble with my ISP--so far.
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E-mail is significant
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To put it another way, we know that there's 60x60x24 = 86,400 seconds in a day, but you dont use a second for calculating your wages, do you?
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It won't backfire on them too much.
So if I want a "broadband" connection, my choice is Comcast or... umm... hang on a minute, I need to get back to you on that.
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This is your only hope.
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An attempt to fool the not so tech-savy.
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"I can send 5 million emails before hitting my cap"
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Bring it on
My usage will be less than TimeWarner's quote of 350,000 e-mails, and best of all, I can prove quantities in court.
Thanks, marketing guys!
Bait and Switch
How does the FTC define "bait and switch" advertising?
It's illegal to advertise a product when the company has no intention of selling that item, but instead plans to sell a consumer something else, usually at a higher price.
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Re: Bring it on
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hughesnet lied to me
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How USA competes
Cable 5GB a month, $35.00
Japan:
Fiber to the house, 930GB Per Month 30GB upstream cap per day, unlimited downloads, no overage charges, and included voice line. Cost? $42.00 a month.
Winner:
JAPAN
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Re: How USA competes
Or do you honestly think that purchasing cable, hiring contractors to install said cable, and upgrading network backbones is free and easy?
I also noticed that you neglected to note that fast fiber networks are starting to spring up with extremely competitive rates (namely, Verizon FiOS).
Sheesh. If nothing else, your name fits you like a glove.
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Fiber backbone upgrades are easier than last mile.
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What's the excuse there? Rain?
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What you make thing it is harder to wire a city with similar density as Japan?
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I wonder where they got the number from?
Could it be that 50% of users use 5GB or less in a month? Plausible?
Who am I kidding, I expect some marketing "guru" pulled a figure out of their @rse. It fits with the need to express it in units like number of emails...
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Think Who It's Aimed At
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Heck, I bet most here have difficulties with that number. Yes, we *know* the number but honestly ask yourself: how large a container do you need to hold 5 million {some_item}.
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forget multiple users
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I have Comcast as an ISP and I don't think I've ever sent a single email via their servers. I have my own domain remotely hosted. It provides individual email addresses for my entire family. That way if we dump Comcast, or Comcast turns into something else, we don't have to change our email address.
Taking care of email through your ISP is like buying gas from the dealership where you bought your car.
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Personally, I don't use the email accounts the ISP has given me. I do check periodically to see if they sent me updates to the EULA/ToS, but mostly they just SPAM me to buy more of their services, which I do not need.
So, if it just capping use of their servers for email, I say cap away. However, if they are capping traffic on the email protocols, then it is an entirely different story.
Woadan
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