stuartbp's Posts

"There ARE alternatives to HOW you receive it, though. There are lower cost alternatives. If you can't or choose not to pay the prices for Home Fusion with its current data caps, get your internet service in other ways. Libraries, for instance." Let me know which librairies are open 24/7 and they let me hangout in my underwear while I work on work projects for 6 hours at a time. "About the ONLY thing I don't do with my internet service which you list is to stream content, and I come nowhere close to ANY type of cap. I have no sympathy for someone complaining about data caps when the majority of their usage is for an ENTERTAINMENT choice they make. If I choose to watch my preferred form of entertainment, I will do so. When I feel the price is too high, I will curtail my enjoyment of it. Simple as that. I would love to go to more concerts, plays, movies, etc... but when I feel the price is too steep, I DON'T GO. Therefore I do not have to pay it." Try video conferencing....enough said. I'm sorry you live in the age of the dinosaur. "Some people complain because they do not live where any other source of broadband is available, that is also a choice. I live where my availability of open space is limited. A choice I have made. Trade offs are made in life all the time. People make a choice, for example, to live in the country/suburbs and then complain they do not have the same conveniences people who live in a more urban area have. Go figure!? You can't have it both ways." I live where no other source is currently available. I moved 3 miles. No I don't live out in a rural area. I live on a street where the cable companies decided not to run 1/2 mile of cable because it wasn't cost effective for that section. One house to the east of me has cable internet, and about 4 to the west also does. I can see cable lines on the utility poles from my driveway. To have cable hooked to my  house it will cost me between $4000-$6000 dollars per the cable company...and you know what? I will be paying to have it done because I have to, to live and work in a modern society. HomeFusion is just bridging the gap until it's done. I will never recommend it to anyone, or Verizon service as a whole. So you're saying that people who do live out in rural areas don't deserve broadband internet because they have more open space? People can't have both? Modern technology allows internet to be anywhere and everywhere. It's on the space station, and the nearest starbucks for them is about 20,000 miles away. I'm sorry that you live in a box just so you can have broadband internet that you don't really even need. You've gotten way off topic. I have a problem with the data caps. You ramble about things that don't compare.

Did I ever say the government shoud pay for my internet or phone? No I don't think I did. I hate the fact that people can now get "Obama Phones" for free. I think it is a huge waste of tax money. There may be a few cases where a free government phone is justified, but I would estimate that %75 percent of the people getting the free government phones are not using them for intended purposes. I was comparing the evolution of phone services to the evolution of internet services. Phone service went from being a luxury, to something that the federal government thinks is so crucial to life, that they will give you one at no cost if you can not afford it. (Even though I do not agree wit it.) Comparing internet service to oil isn't apples to apples. Oil is a commoditie and there is a finite supply. Internet service and phone are not tangible like oil. There are alternatives to oil. There are no alternatives to internet access. Unless you consider...newspapers, libraires, arcades....and bank tellers. Comparisons don't even make sense. No, I am willing to pay for internet service as I think anyone who has it should. My question was when are they going to adjust the ridiculous caps they have in place. Having the caps in place bumps the internet back to the 90's when the only thing it was used for was email, primarily text based web pages, and waiting 10 minutes to download a picture. Internet video, streaming content, home networking are all but eliminated when you have to stay under the ridiculous caps that Verizon has set forth. Strict data caps for mobile devices? Yes I think that is okay to a certain degree. It is not the primary internet for most people. But in home, Primary internet should not have these caps, or at least not caps this low for the price.