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Originally Posted by photon
But I think I misunderstood your original proposal. Do you mean to say that since Shaw offers Pay Per View movies, any Netflix bandwidth (for example) used is exempt from caps? Aside from being a nightmare to even try and track equitably, or even define, what counts as what, that still means Shaw's customers are paying for the competition's customer's usage.
Shouldn't the costs should be the same? If you are going to have competition by forcing Shaw to share their infrastructure, then the sharing has to go both ways.. benefits and liabilities, so that the cost per unit product per customer is the same.
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Precisely. Shaw is artificially capping bandwidth to hurt Netflix (Cable/PPV competitor), so Netflix shouldn't count towards a user's cap. Can't track it? Investment required to track it doesn't make it worthwhile? Well then, don't limit bandwidth. It's not like they aren't profiting without the bandwidth caps anyways.