[AusNOG] Netflix, AWS and Softlayer vs. Australia

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> That's not what quotas are for.
>
> Quotas are to put a price/value on usage, to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Want to use more? Pay more, to find another lane on your highway. Avoids the endless silly arguments the USA and Europe has about net neutrality, because in this country everyone gets their ticket clipped all the time.
>

Which is lovely in theory but Comcast, for instance, isn't proposing
that nice economically sound approach.  They include a quota and then
a high cost per GB beyond that which looks based on using it as a
penalty for high use, not cost based.  Say, around $1 per gigabyte.
That values a Mbps at say ~$300/Mbps/month which doesn't seem
rational.   There's also no "caps" like in Oz nor strong consumer laws
around it.

MMC