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Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2006.12.04 14:08:00 - [1] I don't see it catching on. Why? Any company that doesn't follow that payment plan would suddenly find themselves the most popular ISP in the country- no small incentive not to do it. It could only happen if every single ISP in the country decided to / was forced to do it at the same time. Makes me glad I live in the EU- not heard a peep about it down this end. -----------------------------------------------
Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2006.12.04 14:20:00 - [2] Originally by: DaRuLe If a company, say Bell (dunno if they are an ISP, I'm not an American) introduces this new 'service'. I would leave 'em an go to another ISP. If they all introduce this,.. well, isn't it against the law for large corporations to band together? Anyways, since the US is a free country (it still is right? /sarcasm), I'll bet some human rights group will counter this initiative. Hell, if they did all band together, heres what you do- buy a server and set up your own SP, make a fortune -----------------------------------------------
Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2006.12.04 14:38:00 - [3] Edited by: Patch86 on 04/12/2006 14:38:21 Originally by: Lojack Girl There arnt as many true ISP's as you think for instance there are only 3 TRUE ISP's in the UK that provide internet faster than 56K: BT Cable Saterlite Uplink <5% Cable is NTL"Virgin Comunications" and Cable. and DSL connections are all offered by BT ie tiscali or pipex just rent of BT and you pay them so anything BT does will effect all of the smaller broadband outlets Actually, BT Wholesale (as they are called) arn't the only company to own DSL Exchanges in the UK- UK Online, Easynet and Carphone Warehouse being notably independent from BT (the latter being the 3rd largest provider in the UK, after buying up AOL UK). The UK is a lot less monopolised on thses things than the US and similar, largely due to a very high population density- a company can reach a whole lot of customers with only a small amount of network infrastructure. One of the reasons the USA is so easy for a ISP to dominate is because everyone is so spread out it takes a considerable investment to reach a much smaller number of customers. Besides, monopoly laws are a lot stricter in the EU than in the US. EDIT: Alternatively, what Andrue said -----------------------------------------------
Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2006.12.04 14:54:00 - [4] Originally by: DaRuLe Originally by: Patch86 Besides, monopoly laws are a lot stricter in the EU than in the US. EDIT: Alternatively, what Andrue said Obviously they are, I didn't realise that. Overhere the owner of the DSL-network has to allow other ISPs to operate on their network. When you say "overhere" do you mean US or EU? because if its US, I stand corrected- didn't know that. If its EU though, then yah, tis what I thought. -----------------------------------------------
Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2006.12.04 15:23:00 - [5] Originally by: The Snowman As I have breached the fair user policy of my ISP - Tiscali, they no longer alow me to play Eve (any many other games) during the hours of 6-11pm. Thats harsh. time to switch ISPs?! -----------------------------------------------
Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2006.12.04 15:34:00 - [6] Originally by: Lisento Slaven Aren't there ISP's that have bandwidth caps to prevent you from "getting more than what you pay for"? I have had friends I play games with tell me they can't play for fear of using up the rest of their bandwidth allocated to them for the month/week/day etc. Or aren't there ISP's that limit your transfer speeds to a certain amount, and if you want better speed you have to upgrade your package? This just sounds like a data cap on your internet connection. When you hit the cap your internet gets turned off (because you didn't pay for more than that). Right? You're probably referring to Download Limits, which have largely faded out (in the UK) to be replaced by Fair Usage Aggreements. They meant that as soon as you had downloaded a certain quota of data a month, you got cut off- most lame. However, it was generally in the GB range, so low bandidth games like EVE would affect it not-a-jot. -----------------------------------------------

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