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rayonline

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#162160 30-Jan-2015 20:30
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Just had a thought.  A no. of ISPs now offer unlimited these days.  Back in the day some may saw it as unsustainable Telecom provided unlimited but it fell over and the talk that some othe countries that the USA might be withdrawing unlimited internet too, one telco in Hong Kong also withdrew  unlimited off their mobile internet plans. 

Now looking back was it simply Telecom not allocating enough costs to it and wanting more revenue or has the situation significantly change now? 

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NonprayingMantis
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  #1225651 30-Jan-2015 20:36
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it's probably unsustainable for only 1 ISP to offer unlimited. They would get all the 'vampires'.

When all (or most) ISPs offer unlimited, the cost of those vampires is spread accross all the ISPs and so doesn't hurt as much.

Secondly, the price of international bandwidth is way way way lower now than it was back then

Thirdly, a lot less content needs to be brought from the USA now.  A large proportion of stuff is hosted on servers either here in NZ or in Australia, so the proportion of internets that incur expensive NZ->USA international bandwidth is much lower.

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