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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Yeah data isn't electricity persay. If you had no growth in data consumption and you had built ample capacity then the variable cost of provisioning 1 kb a data is nothing. For electricity you had to use fuel and had to pay for line losses, not so with data if you assume the capacity is always there.
So it's a false analogy to compare data with other consumable utility provisioned goods like water and electricity.
Now, data is growing, and companies need to add new capacity so therefore people should be charged on their uplink bandwidth or on their peak consumption but that's considerable different from what ISP's like Bell proposed.
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Wrong. There is enormous ongoing expense in delivering broadband to a premise. The bytes are not free once the network is in place, they are just quite cheap. Your natural gas bill carries a charge for both the gas, as well as delivery, and that's the same way I think Internet should be billed.