An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? 479
An anonymous reader writes "The East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative started charging cellular prices for home DSL internet service starting on January 1st, 2014. A 5GB plan costs $24.95 a month while a 25 GB plan will run $99.95 per month. 100 GB is the most data you can get in a package for $299.95 per month. Each additional GB is $5. They argue that the price increase is justified because their costs have increased by 900% since 2009. About half of their customers use less than 5 GB a month while their largest users use around 100 GB a month. They argue that the switch to measured internet will appropriately place the cost on their heaviest users. With the landmark Net Neutrality ruling this week will larger providers try to move to similar price models?"
Cutting the cord (Score:4, Funny)
My wife and I are pretty close to just turning off Internet at home. We can only get AT&T, and we can only get legacy DSL at 1.5mbit. Usually when I'm sitting on the PC at home I'm thinking that I'd rather be doing something else anyway, like right now, in fact.
Re:no (Score:4, Funny)
The free market already fixed this problem, if you don't like your provider, you're free to chose another. That's what makes capitalism and America great.
-- Ethanol-fueled
Re:It doesn't cost any more to serve more data (Score:4, Funny)
Re:There doesn't seem to be a "market" (Score:5, Funny)
I'm curious, how does it feel to be the only person on Slashdot who READ THE DAMN ARTICLE?
worst country ever. (Score:4, Funny)