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Exceeding cap & credit crunch...easy cash cow?

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  • 01-03-2009 6:38pm
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    Richard Dower
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    Consider the harsh economic times and the fact that alot of people (incl me) are taking the p*ss and exceeding the cap. If they charge 3c per MB over your cap then the potential profits for ISP's and charging for gping over the cap would be huge!!

    If you go over by 10GB, 3c X 1024MB...Thats what, €307....in short, would it make finincial sense for them to start charging?


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    There probably not going to as they would just loose customers, I think its a good idea Eircom set a "fair use policy" with "Unlimited" bandwidth limits, it sounds much better and it appears thats what there doing now

    Nick

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    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    "unlimited" dosen't mean squat, it's a sales tactic....they always add "fair usage policy" in tiny text in adverts to try con people.


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    "unlimited" dosen't mean squat, it's a sales tactic....they always add "fair usage policy" in tiny text in adverts to try con people.

    Agreed totally, but I was stating that if eircon were to implement a fair use policy, they would get more customers and anyways most net users I'm sure don't go anywhere near the cap most months (unless your a downloader), basicly eircon are doing a type of fair use policy these days, only ever heard one story of a guy having to pay for going over the cap, he owned a internet cafe and used eircons basic broadband!

    Nick

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    PogMoThoin
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    yoyo wrote: »
    only ever heard one story of a guy having to pay for going over the cap, he owned a internet cafe and used eircons basic broadband!

    Exactly why I changed to a business package, I'm always over the limit and figured it'd be a little safer to have business, it costs the same as residential.


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