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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
That was the sentiment at the consultation. People don't mind paying for their usage if a) the rate is fair and even regulated, and b) there is no monthly fee as well. Shaw even admitted that, traditionally, the light internet users have been subsidizing the heavy ones. What they want is the same monthly fee from grandma, and then cash in on overage fees from others.
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Well someone posted an article awhile ago which quoted one of the guy from Netflix saying the cost of internet per GB is around 2 cents. If we go with that number, I doubt that the light users are subsidizing the heavy users given that the markup is so high. They're probably still making profit off from the heavy users as well. They just can't gouge money out of the heavy users as they are doing with the light users.