03-14-2011, 01:52 AM
Chakravartin wrote:
...customers strongly believe that only those who use the most bandwidth should pay more than those who don't use as much. That's exactly what this does – and again, 98% of our customers will not be impacted by this.
Translation:
We've found a group of customers that we can charge more without upsetting or scaring off the majority of our customers.
At the fastest of their U-Verse speeds, there's probably some truth to this---despite them NOT mentioning anything about what's happened recently to cause them to be concerned. I still find it amusing that as a 1.5Mbps customer I could in any meaningful way negatively impact their network.
These guys are far quicker to look for ways to charge customers extra, instead of building their fscking infrastructure so that it wouldn't be an issue in the first place. They can't at least lie to us, throw us a bone and claim to be investing in faster speeds, higher usage allowances?