Mausam,
I just came across an article here where it is mentioned that Time Warner intends to introduce a method where your monthly bill for internet services would be based on your usage. NBC also mentioned that the likes of Verizon, Comcast etc also intend to implement the same. Considering that I am one of those who have replaced television with internet as a source of entertainment, news etc it is not surprising that I am disappointed with this development.
The more I think about it, the more it boggles me that how in the world's most advanced country all the citizens are at a mercy of a few Corporate power houses. These internet service providers figured out that they can increase their profitability by charging heavy users while not changing the price charged from others. If they would have suggested that the price charged from everybody else would be lowered then that would have made sense but they will never do that as that would result in loss of considerable revenue!
If all of a sudden these companies have woken up to the fact that some users have been using bulk of the bandwidth and need to pay for that then why haven't they realized the same logic for the cellphone users. Why don't they introduce usage based billing for cellphone users and punish the people who have been clogging the airwaves and reducing the charges imposed on less frequent users, why am I forced to pay for the minutes that I have not used!
Why is the public transport system in US worse than India's?
Regards,
Ajj Kaim
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