As someone who has Gigapower, I rarely hit half a TB in a month.
And this is a non-issue if you subscribe to TV service as does most of ATT uverse customers.
How do you feel about their "Internet Preferences" bullshit? Are you taking their default lower rate and allowing them to track every little thing you do?
People cannot have it both ways. You can't argue that cable/internet should be considered a utility, and not allow themselves to bill like all other utilities(metered service).
The more Congress and others push for cable to be regulated like other utilities, the more likely we will end up with truly metered service instead pseudo metered service via caps.
The days of truly unlimited bandwidth are going to be over sooner or later.
Telecoms want to act like a monopoly but they don't want to be regulated like one. You can't have it both ways.
Well, metered service isn't really that big of an enemy. I'm all for it, if there is responsible and regulated charges.
Consider: a line access fee, and then $0.05/GB. If you used 1TB, that's $50 for the metered service and then the access fee is added. Perhaps the access fee is based on line rate, so $50/month gets you 1Gbps. $20/month may get you 100Mbps. $100/month for Gigabit service and 1TB seems very generous. Perhaps the line access fee for that rate could be a bit lower. I highly doubt we'd see metered rates below $0.05/GB, but I'd love to be surprised! But of course that would vary greatly, based on local economics. You can get better than that with Google Fiber and U-verse Gigapower where Google exists, but that's a rare thing for the majority of the U.S..
This pseudo-metered bullshit is terrible. True metering isn't, but they definitely need to be regulated accordingly. And the days for this are coming fast, because internet is quickly becoming a necessity for school-age children. We need competitive regulation that affords good rates because it would still likely be a market-local monopoly like most utilities are these days.
You guys need competition in the markets.
We have uverse, time warner and verizon and that allows me to have 200mb/20mb for $50 a month unlimited.
I have sony vue as well but I dont really watch tv. Its only for fox sports ufc.
Competition in any single market is very rare, and usually a subject of different classes of providers who happened to have some kind of footprint to begin with.
U-verse Gigapower, for example, is in very few markets, and they are really only making competitive pricing where Google Fiber exists.
He have a local cable company and U-verse, because AT&T has always been the phone service provider for the region. We never had Verizon phone service, ever, so before Verizon gave up on FIOS, we were will guaranteed to never get it.
All of us WANT competition in our markets, but we cannot have it if it does not already exist in some form. And multiple cable companies in a single market is exceptionally rare, and I think if it does happen, different neighborhoods still only get one choice. I know Columbus, OH has two or three cable companies operating, but I'm pretty sure you don't get a choice.
I absolutely loathe the current state of the competition, because it is rarely competition at all for most customers. Much more regulation needs to be done, including leasing lines to other providers so more operators can move into a single market. Make it an opportunity to create the cable equivalent of MVNOs, except more often than the big boys could still be the ones sharing the lines.
