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Originally Posted by photon
3 Netflix movies per week in HD would be 27GB, not even half of the 60GB.
And if you go over, each movie would cost as little as 45 cents if you buy the bandwidth in buckets ahead of time, which if you are a heavy user makes sense to do.
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True.
But is there a problem with a 150GB minimum bandwidth limit? That would cover the vast majority of the population. Plans with higher limits can also be available and priced accordingly.
I agree with paying for what you use, but its 2011. There is no reason to lower the bandwidth cap outside of this being nothing other than a cash grab.
Netflix confirmed that it only costs pennies to deliver 1GB of bandwidth to any wired user. And that will only get cheaper as the backbone is built out with faster and faster speeds.
Again, I agree with paying for the bandwidth you use, but Shaw is not helping themselves with lowering the caps, and making it that magically people who once upon a time used 50GB per month, now use 200GB per month according to their meter.