John Shutt wrote: >> From the article: > > "Last year, the average user consumed more than 9GB of data per month > on their home connection while the median user consumed less than 2GB, > the commission said. The wide gap between those figures reflects the > small number of users who consume large amounts of data per month. The > most data-intensive 1 percent of residential consumers account for 25 > percent of all traffic. The top 10 percent consume 70 percent, the FCC > said." > > Opening up the door to charging home internet users by the MB > downloaded, instead of by the theoretical maximum download speed of > the connection. > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >> http://broadcastengineering.com/news/FCC-cracking-down-on-misleading-advertised-broadband-speeds/index.html >> My broadband service is 12 mbps from Comcast, almost their lowest available speed here. But 12 mbps (bits) comes out to 1.5 MB (bytes) / second or 5.5 GB per hour. Under the above figures the median customer pays for one month but uses only less than 1/2 hour of that each month, the average customer less than 2 hours per month. Cable providers should thank their lucky stars for that deal. And, except for posturing, I don't see them really very upset about it. Bits (wired bits) are becoming cheap and they know it. - Tom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.