Giving “free data pass” to limited set of apps is even more harmful IMO, the monopolies can afford pay the network infrastructure but small app developers will not be able to.
Or, or, hear me out. The companies that need such high speed networks, should pay the infrastructure companies and get their own communication lines built, instead of buying QoS access on publicly funded projects.
I agree. What do you think about fair use policies? Things like having 250GB/Month kind of limits.
The internet infrastructure was built with certain utilization and speed in mind. Instead of owning up to the fact that it’s not as good as it used to be, these companies are selling quality of service products. Otherwise it’s too much of a publicity hit if they admit it.
I'm in favor of things that ultimately benefit the consumer.
"Unlimited" plans have always irked the hell out of me, because they rarely are.
I think capped totals (ideally without overage charges and with slow-lane bandwidth until reset) are perfectly fine.
But I'm 100% against named exclusions that don't count against a cap -- that's unfairly preferring an existing incumbent, and doesn't benefit the consumer in the larger/competition sense.
This is what big CDN and cloud vendors do. You can see them as part of the infrastructure. For big users of cloud you can get dedicated connections, for example Azure ExpressRoute.
That's a complete different game than that between end-customers, ISPs and service providers.
