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No I mean really LOL Or should that be LOL, LOL, ROTFLMAO Seriously, here in Australia we have for many years. And I will repeat it again, for many years we habe suffered or lacked the ability to compete with the USA plans. Now that the Australian dollar is so strong against the greenback, we are now begining to not only reap the awards on interent but hardware as well. At the moment I am reaping the rewards of a weak and I mean extremly weak green back, and all that means to me is huge savings and not about time either. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The country that is already trailing the rest of the developed world in > Internet Usage has now taken even more steps backward. > > > http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2008/tc2008063_767960.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_news+%2B+analysis > > Time Warner is putting in place a Net Metering system, where their most > expensive package is capped at 40GB per month for about 50US$. > > While other countries are offering 30MB/s download speeds unlimited, and > have far higher broadband penetration, these US Providers seem intent on > stifling the growing Multimedia usage of the Internet. > You have one set of companies on the one hand seeking to leverage the > Internet for High Definition TV viewing (HULU etc.) and doing your work > online (Google Apps, Online File Storage etc. ) and then > you have the providers seeking to cut back on customer capabilities. This > will have a net negative effect on all these new and innovative services! > The holy grail of television - IPTV....might never happen. > > If there are no customers , then these innovative business ideas such as > YouTube, Second Life, Google Apps, Hulu, Direct Software Downloads etc. > aren't going to go anywhere, and most would never have started. > A Game bought Legitimately from EA Online Store, or Direct2Drive.com is > about 12GB now, that's almost HALF of your monthly allotment for bandwidth > at Time Warner's maximum. > > Couple this with an almost psychotic focus on the so called losses caused > by > Piracy related to BitTorrent and the billions that these companies seem > prepared to spend on packet inspection systems to stop the protocol, and it > makes it seem that the only thing that runs the US is Corporations and > Capitalist interest - "What do we have to do to make the most profit. > Period." The RIAA and MPAA lobbies are hard at work pushing their false > information to the public that they lose oh so much money from online movie > downloads and music downloads although Movie purchases actually INCREASED > last year! > > Purchasing and developing systems to stop SPAM which accounts for more than > 90% of email traffic, Virus propagation through the net in attachments etc. > would help far more people than spending billions to stop BitTorrent. But > there is little to no interest by these same providers in such > technology.Why? > > The plan is utterly ridiculous, and these companies are simply trying to > insulate themselves and milk the public instead of improving their networks > to meet customer demand and changing usage of the Internet, while making > gross profits. > This is also spreading to ...guess where? The UK ! > GAH! > > The article doesn't note if tier pricing to offshore providers is going to > change as well as a result of this, but I sincerely hope there is no > trickle > down effect. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261385 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
