There exists a legitimate need for bandwidth caps as evidenced by the fact that people see such dramatic improvements from the tunneling services I mentioned a while back, and the statistics on the percentage of all bandwidth being used by Netflix (75% ?)
Need someone *cough*Gongaa*cough* to do the math and estimate how much bandwidth there is available in the world vs. how much we use. There is a definite limit, set by physical things like fiber optic cables, as well as technology.
They could probably wait a few years before implementing caps, but it makes the most sense, especially from a business standpoint, to do it now to minimize the number of people pissed off pre- and post-cap, and before the customers who pay for extra bandwidth are affected and switch providers.
AT&T Internet users, welcome to cap hell.
http://gigaom.com/broadband/sxsw-bummer-att-implements-broadband-caps/
They are instituting bandwidth caps on their DSL service.
Bandwidth caps are nothing more than a bullshit attempt to try and market streaming movies and TV. Soon every provider out there will have caps in place and most already do I think.
pharren
15 years ago