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Originally Posted by bronco67
It's going to be really important. Problem is, the infrastructure isn't in a place at the moment where we can have a set price. It's finite, and if they have to charge more to support the need of some people to download everything on the internet every fucking second of the day, then so be it. I'm not worried about it, because I don't use that much. Why should I worry about someone who uses 10 times more bandwidth than me? Let them pay for it.
I don't pay a high set-price electric bill because the Walmart uses 1000 times more electricity than me -- they pay what they use, and I pay what I use. This concept is escaping all of the folks that think everything should be low-cost/free, regardless of how much they consume. I don't know where this mindset has come from actually, its a new thing that's come up with the current generation of kids that think they're entitled to everything for nothing.
Sounds like a "get off my lawn" speech, but it's true. Tell people they can't download music for free, then they're oppressed by the man. Tell people they have to pay more for the internet they use, then they're oppressed.
I don't want to be on the side of a big corporation, but as a businessman myself, I would be pissed if someone was sucking up more of my services and paying the same price as low-level consumers.
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I don't know what it's like in Canada, but I have a problem in general with utility companies raising prices. Not because I'm antibusiness or anticorporate, I'm not. But because those same utility companies get tax subsidies to pay for expansion, they already charge internal taxes for expansion, and yet they still want more and more money for more expansion when they already have expansion money flowing. Where are they using the expansion money they already have? Besides padding their pockets.
You run a business to make money. No doubt. You also have the responsibility to continuously improve your business with the money you are generating. With competition, this usually isn't an issue. When a company has a monopoly, suddenly it becomes an issue because that business is not fighting with other businesses. Utility companies remind me of the government... always wanting more and more money to improve, which they rarely seem to do, instead of cutting back on waste and using the money they already have.