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Originally Posted by dr wadd
But this amounts to the ISPs just sticking their heads in the sand. Bandwidth requirements are only going to increase in time, the ISPs need to deal with that. They cannot act like some form of neo-Luddite, stuck with the attitudes that they had in the days of dial-up and ignore the ramifications that broadband has on people's behaviour when it comes to using the internet. There will come a time when even "normal" internet use will fall into the ISPs definition of heavy usage, and by adopting this backward looking policy there will come a time when they simply collapse. Arguments that it will cost x amount of money to upgrade the network simply aren`t sustainable, sooner or later it will have to be done just to service the "normal" customers. Taking this approach of attempting to constrain behaviour will simply mean that those narrow-minded ISPs are going to get seriously bitten at some point in the near future.
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Bandwidth requirements will increase in time as the technology and infrastructure also advance to cope with it. At the moment we are working with technology and infrastructure that copes very well with the requirements of the majority of users. Just look at what was available on cable and ADSL a couple of years ago and how far things have come. Cost of upgrading infrastructure to cope with tomorrows requirements has to be borne by someone and that is the customer, unless the government decide to intervene, and guess where they will get the money from.The problem here is that some users, particularly the heavy users, are not willing to pay their fair share of what they are using now and would throw a fit if asked to pay more for the upgrades needed for future use.