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Broadband hog Netflix is being charged more by it’s Internet providers than they’d like and they have to pass the increase along to the customers.
Up to now they’ve been charged a flat fee to use broadband Internet, but they take up so much broadband that it’s detrimental to other customers. They say it’s time to begin charging in increments of broadband measures – and time to put a cap on how much broadband a user can have during any month.
The ISP aren’t even mentioning services like HBO Go, Huluor Amazon Prime; it’s the hog they’re after, but of course changes would be made across the board.
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More and more, fixed-wire and wireless ISPs are introducing a new pay policy ending flat-rate fees and creating data caps, but they’re worried it will raise bills for regular consumers. Metered billing could curb competition, and we all know, when that happens prices go up exponentially.
Then there will be problems because companies like Comcast and AT&T will have to start charging for their own services by the bit. Not just broadband shortages are the problem, there’s also overloaded networks slowed by videos and apps based in the cloud, and huge graphic files. ISPs have to spend more so it only makes sense that the biggest users should pay the biggest price.
Netflix is going to be one of the worst hit by the new charging system, and there will have to be some bugs worked out in pricing because HD television will be big competition if it’s cheaper than Netflix.
