[zingz7]

My ISP, centurytel.net provides completely unlimited DSL service. There are no caps of any kind and no restriction on any kind of data.

[monk0504]

Check out what rural areas have had to put up with. You do know that we are out here too. Hughesnet sat service sucks. I pay 69.99 a month and can only download up to 375MB in a 24HR period or they slow me down slower than dial-up for the next 24HR's. Remember this is after an outlay of close to a thosand dollars of equipment over the last five years. This has always been this way for us. NO streaming anything, No movies, some Windows updates are impossible. Sorry to hear that some of you will join my world for half the price

[rtfire1]

When I move some where I make sure that the services I need are there for my needs. in 04 I moved in to a condow with my now ex wife. I made sure that we had to options for high speed internet. I had bought a 13 month block of internet from the dsl company down the street no speed cap life was great till 4 days later when verizon cut in to the dsl/phone line and put in a 5000 feet of cable for a new area that need phone service. long story short hello cable. I will be moving in 6 months to 2 years from know and have been looking at my opptions for cable, phone and internet.

[prskater]

This issue is placing the weight on the users' shoulders. If, as you say, a movie can consume 5GB, then the future of watching movies over broadband is dead on arrival, should the cable companies impose any limits. Just because 3 per cent of 80 per cent of 80 per cent (which is way beyond my comprehension, being an ignorant layman), consume a lot of bandwidth the rest of us have to pay? Now, the hogs will be those games and movies that are being or will be downloaded at some future moment. Why not force the source -- the game and movie companies -- to share the income with the broadband providers. TV would not have had the success it had here if it had been for pay -- a truism which probably has no foundation because of our consumerism nature. But, I say force the providers of entertainment, not the watchers or gamers, to share the wealth. Thank you. Roxy

[rtfire1]

that is a great idea if your making money on what people are watching down loading share the wealth. I get speeds would go throught the roof. okay u tube might have some problems but I am sure they can be worked out.

[trjtrj]

Besides bandwidth, Road Runner (Time Warner Cable) has dropped access to newsgroups for RR subscribes. I have had RR for years and now without a reduction in my monthly payment I no longer get newsgroups. The Internet's newsgroups and usenet have always been a big information and recreational use for users. I hear other services are doing this too and it's a bad deal for subscribers.

[technicalhitman]

I think we need to identify what unlimited means. From Merriam Webster Online....

Unlimited - 1 : lacking any controls : unrestricted <unlimited access> 2 : boundless, infinite <unlimited possibilities> 3 : not bounded by exceptions : undefined <the unlimited and unconditional surrender of the enemy - Sir Winston Churchill>

Not bounded by exceptions, boundless, infinite, unrestricted.

Any lawyer will clearly make this a slam dunk case. To any jury, this will be pretty freaking clear. If any ISP offers unlimited bandwith anywhere in their advertisement, the ISP's will lose their case. Unlimited definition is crystal clear. Considering how much better Japan and South Korea's broadband infrastructure is, American ISP's have no excuses. Demands on their networks will steadly increase. Instead of overpaying CEO's, VP's, management, and overall top heavy salaries; they need to take serious paycuts. Reinvest in their networks and bring more bandwith capacity online.

I have no sympathy for ISP's considering the fact that many American's can't afford it. I'm at a coffee shop because its way too expensive. The average American CEO makes 400 times what the average worker makes. Even half of these top heavy salaries could increase bandwith capability and lower prices. The greed of corporations is coming back to boot and I refuse to pay anymore.