Comcast: Usage-Based Billing for All Customers Within 5 Years; 'We're Also Allowed to Do Fast Lanes'

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7. Another modern dinosaur

Just like transportation dictated by personal vehicles, air travel, cell phones, education,

another paradigm which is in its death throes and reliant on a gov't mandate to continue to exist. A single thread internet is not workable when the streaming video is shoved onto it. There just isn't enought bandwidth for the current infrastructure. Changing to fiber bought a few years but it's obvious we're hitting that limit.

I've currently got Comcast in an urban environment so my bandwidth increased (tho the speed decreased) over my previous carrier. In that case I noticed my response time on the intertubes deteriorated on weekend evenings. I suspected it was because of all the ondemand videos pushed onto my cable leg.

Now we have all the video feeds riding on that same medium.

Maybe it's time for a dual feed, parallel system? One feed that is geared to downstream dumps and the other an interactive system.

So where's that FCC guy? Shouldn't he be working on this thing rather than enforcing the monopoly?

Oh, and while he's at it, maybe standardize the control language for remotes. I'm tired of trying to locate my real TV remote so I can get to the menu. No wait, that's the one for the receiver.