Bill St. Arnaud: Changes being made under the rubric of fighting excessive use of bandwidth by that mythical 5 percent of broadband subscribers that use 90 percent of available bandwidth have nothing to do with freeing those ill-used bits for legitimate use.
From a March 6, 2001, transcript of an online chat between Bernd-Jürgen Brandes (cator99) and Armin Meiwes (antrophagus): cator99: I’m in telecommunications antrophagus: Oh, that sounds interesting cator99: I believe you
Also: The best network is the hardest one to make money running. This is the Paradox of the Best Network.
More recently: Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has announced that it will impose a monthly cap of 250 GB on its customers' Internet usage.
Gobble, gobble. |