Comments on: Have an opinion on broadband caps? Speeds? Tell the FCC.

By: txpatriot

txpatriot — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:23:44 +0000

If cable is a monopoly, then I guess google deploying fiber in KC was just a figment of my imagination . ..

By: Michael Elling

Michael Elling — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:13:29 +0000

The internet was never free. Flat rate, unlimited dial-up was an artifact of monopoly Bell response to competitive WAN/IXC threat in the mid-to-late 1980s to their analog-priced Class5 hegemond. WWW only came after that. Bill and keep is anti-competitive. Called party pays (US wireless, advertising, 800, VPN, central subsidization, etc..) is broadly the future. This requires a balanced settlement solution which fosters bilateral investment leading to rapid new service creation (ie video conferencing interoperability, HD services, etc…).

But these are monopolies and bandwidth pricing is 20-150x higher than it should be; having disconnected from moore’s and metcalfe’s laws 10 years ago. Monopolies can only contemplate average pricing and cost. Instead of “meeting” marginal demand, they cap the high-volume user and put a tax on the average user by raising rates. The model is flawed and rife for disruption a la Google.

In a competitive model the high volume user should pay a lower volume rate, but will generate more revenue. Networks scale that way. Instead, average pricing results in high volume users fleeing the public network to private solution resulting in diseconomies of scale.

By: Hei Pao

Hei Pao — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:48:20 +0000

Malaysian consumers tired and fedup with expensive fiber broadband took to the streets to a local telco HQ to demand prices to be lowered down – http://youtu.be/OCKqxOuNdaM

This is how bad it sounds when telcos offer super expensive pricing that is seen as a burden to SMEs

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:07:55 +0000

Buenas ,

Les escribo para comentar sobre su comunicado mas reciente.
En el Area Metropolitana en Puerto Rico (donde yo vivo ahora mismo) la compañia de Cable , Internet y Telefono llamada Onelink Communications nos brinda velocidades de Internet desde 4MEGAS de Download y de Upload 345 hasta 6MEGAS de Download y de Upload 645 , yo entiendo que no es una velocidad suficiente pero en un par de meses la compañia Liberty Cablevision de Puerto Rico (Liberty Mundial) esta esperando su respuesta para comprar a Onelink Communications , esta compra me parece que sera muy beneficiosa para nosotros los clientes de Onelink por una parte, esta compañia no tiene limite Cap de 40GB el cual tiene Onelink desde el 2007 pero tiene velocidades de hasta 30MEGAS de Download a un precio rasonable. Por este medio les escribo de una vez , para indicarles que apoyo la compra de Onelink Communications por parte de Liberty Cablevision y además para indicarles que entiendo y favorezco su opinion de que todas las compañias de Internet que tengan un Limite Cap deberian de aumentarlo a 250GB y las velocidades tambien a mas de 4MB(Download) y 1MB(Upload).

Espero su respuesta !!!
Gracias!!

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:58:47 +0000

Cable franchises are non-exclusive – meaning there is no regulation preventing multiple cable providers from serving a community. The fact that very few communities have multiple providers is the fault of the cable ops – not due to regulatory overreach. Besides, Chicago has multiple providers and rates are no lower than anywhere else.

Free market competition as a means to lower consumer prices in telecom is a myth that right-wingnuts need to get over.

By: Chris Conder

Chris Conder — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:59:51 +0000

USA is still working on a scarcity model. Due to telcos protecting obsolete copper assets which can’t deliver the goods. Time to light the fibre. Time for abundance and innovation.

By: Source

Source — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:46:38 +0000

Ok, so it is obvious that you are a hardcore right-wing thinker here. Let me combat each of your moronic points with a string of facts and logic.

We have been DEREGULATING corporations (like the ones that control our internet access, as the topic is on this) for a long time. What has happened? We get companies like Comcast who literally OWN all of the cables and property lines for the business to function. This is called A MONOPOLY!

If we let the market “do its thing” and have no government regulation where there needs to be regulation, companies like Comcast remain in control over all of the cables and property – making it so that there is no competition that can compete with it on a reasonable level. There already are companies like Century Link who are trying to offer lower prices against Comcast, but the problem is that Century Link is unable to produce its service to as many customers as Comcast due to the reasons I have already discussed.

By the way, naming yourself “Nobama” is just more reason for you to jump off the roof of a 30 story building. I’m not happy with Obama’s presidency, but I sure as hell don’t go to the lengths to make myself out to be another one of Bachman’s retarded conformist bitch in the process. Please, never reproduce.

By: Zenu the over lord

Zenu the over lord — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:41:53 +0000

All utilities need to be communised; the control of infrastructure should not be in the hands of private entities.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:28:14 +0000

With video streaming, online gaming, mobile devices and gaming consoles my household exceeds 450GB of data per month. Back before comcast suspended the data limit, we had to monitor our usage very heavily and stop using the internet all together for the last week or so of the month each month. The kicker is, we very rarely download anything at all. This is all from streaming and gaming. Bandwith caps need to be eliminated. Home users shouldn’t be forced to buy a business plan for normal everyday usage. If there absolutely must be a limit, it should be at the very least 500GB of data, if not 1000GB.

By: Nobama

Nobama — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:23:00 +0000

STOP REGULATING CABLE COMPANIES! Let competition reign so we can have more than one cable company in a market. Let them compete by offering faster speeds/lower prices, rather than some filthy liberal bureaucrat sitting in an office deciding “how the world should run”.