nuclearcat "On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte... [T]iers will range from $29.95 a month for... 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for... 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Those prices cover the Internet portion of subscription bundles that include video or phone services. Both downloads and uploads will count toward the monthly cap." :-D Seems their top managers saw news of Lebanese internet :-D
samer Yes, I read that too! But hey, 1$ for a gigabyte is still a lot better from what we pay when we go over the quota :rolleyes:
nuclearcat Commercial price for bandwidth in US for big cities - $75-100/meg, counting that bandwidth comes not bulk to datacenter. In Lebanon backbone price right now $1500-$2000 TO ISP, also include extremely expensive distribution. DSL cover far away not all areas and DSL capacity is limited, due to unprofessional wiring, maybe more than in other countries. But maybe good news comes after 1 year... but since Lebanon dealing with european countries and backbone(means EUR), economics based on USD, and if dollar continue to fall, they will not do price drop :-(
rolf Probably because some users use "home connection" to host servers and big websites, even maybe reselling hosting... The usage policy forbids such things, but I guess it is much easier to put bandwidth cap then to hunt down abusers and examine their bandwidth usage.
samer No. It is just P2P issue. True, but you might as well switch to a provider that doesn't have a quota! At least in the US, there is real competition and I doubt a law will be voted to impose this quota, as it would start riots on the streets!
nuclearcat Actually not always. It is not lebanon, in many areas internet provided only by one operator. So users don't have much choice...
samer in many areas internet provided only by one operator The implementation of the quota would open some space for a competitor to take over the market.
nuclearcat samer - just it will not worth it... it is not a lebanon, where any operator can throw a cable between buildings or install Z-Com $100 AP at roof. In "law" country just to connect customer you need to spend for equipment $1250+ per customer, and around same amount for putting cables/fiber/installing wireless at roof.
