Companies admit usage limits are not about congestion.

Cable companies (in the U.S.) finally admit that usage limits are not about congestion as they had insisted for years, and as many companies continue to insist. With your help we’ve managed to save independent options, but we still face the challenge of eliminating price-gouging limits on our phone and Internet use in Canada. If you haven’t yet, send decision makers a clear message that we won't tolerate being gouged by big telecom companies: http://StoptheMeter.ca/ Article by Karl Bode for DSL Reports:

Cable companies (in the U.S.) finally admit that usage limits are not about congestion as they had insisted for years, and as many companies continue to insist.

With your help we’ve managed to save independent options, but we still face the challenge of eliminating price-gouging limits on our phone and Internet use in Canada. If you haven’t yet, send decision makers a clear message that we won't tolerate being gouged by big telecom companies: http://StoptheMeter.ca/

Article by Karl Bode for DSL Reports:

For years the cable industry insisted that they imposed usage caps because network congestion made them necessary. You'll recall that Time Warner Cable insisted that if they weren't allowed to impose caps and overages the Internet would face "brown outs." Cable operators also paid countless think tanks, consultants and fauxcademics to spin scary yarns about a looming network congestion "exaflood," only averted if cable operators were allowed to raise rates, impose caps, eliminate regulation or (insert pretty much anything here).

The problem of course was that real data from researchers like Andrew Odlyzko repeatedly showed that well-run fixed line networks don't have serious capacity issues, and that looming video growth was easily handled by even modest network investment.

It only took the better part of a decade, but the cable industry has apparently realized they can no longer pretend that caps are really about congestion. Speaking at a meeting this week, former FCC boss turned top cable lobbyist Michael Powell finally acknowledged caps weren't about congestion, though he did continue pushing the myth that caps are about "fairness" Read more »

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