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Transfer Capping by ISPs (Was: Regional differences in P2P)

  • From: Evaldo Gardenali
  • Date: Fri Jul 16 10:04:42 2004 
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
| On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 [email protected] wrote:
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|>Not 10 Mbps but: Telenor, the largest Norwegian service provider,
|>capped their ADSL customers at a ridiculously low 1 Gbyte/month for a
|>while. Presumably they lost sufficient business to other (uncapped)
|>providers that they noticed - the cap has now been removed.
|
|
| What did they do when customer went over the limit?
|
| That is the big issue, households want to control their spending and
| automatically charging them more if they do more, is not very popular.
|

Hi

Here in S�o Paulo state, Brazil, telefonica (yeah, the same spanish one)
caps ADSL too , they have the 128kbit dsl capped at 500MB, 300kbit
capped at 3000MB, 450kbps capped at 10500MB and 600kbps capped at
20000MB. no uncapped service available (except for old contracts), and
they charge about US$ 0.03 (R$ 0.10) for each megabyte above the quota.

Hopefully, their right to charge this is suspended by law, for now :)

They also have a service where you pay per-hour (about US$ 0.65/ hour)
for 1mbit/128 service, and skipping the quota (whatever you transfer
while paying for this does not count on the quota)

Unfortunately, there is a monopoly in DSL service :(

Cya
Evaldo Gardenali
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