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Time Warner Cable Chokes Its Customers

I do not love the cable companies but there is a legitimate thought to this. The numbers on internet usage are not even, I am not positive but it is something as lopsided as 10% of users use 90% of the bandwidth.

So the truth is why should regular internet users subsidize people who watch movies every day on the internet? Granted we are used to this with cable companies, my mom has been paying for ESPN on her basic cable bill for years and never watches it. That is over $3 a month that ESPN charges the cable companies for each subscriber that is shared by all subscribers even though a majority do not use it. Is there a reason my mom should subsidize sports fanatics to the tune of almost $40 a year?

Why is flat pricing any different than gas subsidies. As long as the 10% of heaviest users are bing subsidized on the net they will not limit their usage. I do not like pricing per gig as that is annoying but why not have a three or four tiered structure with different levels of usage.