Interesting look at possible tiered data plans for heavy data users. My initial reaction is "big deal".
Near the end of the article it is mentioned that Comcast has a data tier that allows for "300 gigabits per month - or about 130 hours of Netflix HD videos." Think about that for a minute. That's 4.33 hours of HD video a day. Good chance someone doing that is probably a cord cutter - and why should the cable company subsidize Netflix? Plus - as encoding algorithms advance less and less bandwidth will be needed for the same amount of video.
If in the future both cable and telcos will be the equivalent of dumb pipe providers - why shouldn't they get to charge for how much you drink from the pipe?
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