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RE: Tiered pricing - Humbug

You are right about Japan, and the reason it can't be done here like that is beause of many factors:

1) Japan as a country is greatly smaller then we are, so less distances to run fiber, cable, etc...
2) If we opened up that much bandwidth most US businesses with bonafide T-1 services would be completely swamped and overloaded by 1 or 2 home users using their site
3) Most home people will probally take advantage of all the speed to setup their own servers for personal use or business use.

I'm pretty sure japan has complex rules setup to get around people abusing the great amount of bandwidth buy probally putting limitations to what you can do with it. IE... access limits to just email, web-browsing and downloading files.

"The typical Japanese Internet broadband subscriber, TYPICAL, mind you, gets 10 times the current typical speed of the US User, and pays HALF of what we pay for it.

THAT is the proper tier. Why in the world do they want to RAISE prices even more, except to increase their already huge profits? Can you say, "Gouge?""

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