WebDude’s Comments

• Mar 4th, 2015 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Re: kind of disagree

  on Netflix's Love Of Net Neutrality Notably Absent In Australia, Where It's Striking Cap Exempt Deals With ISPs
  From the other point of view, by being outside the caps, those services which are within capped/ monitored traffic are at least allowed to be used more freely without clashing with Netflix use.
  
  I write as someone in the UK where various ISPs have
  
  a) a fixed limit, with additional charges, or higher tiers, costing more.
  A few are unlimited during the night hours {00:00 to 08:00}.
  
  b) "totally unlimited" usage, where some ISPs cope better than others.
  
  I have 2 different phone lines and ISPs (plus mobile) as I work from home, and feel the need for backup, and I know one will be far more responsive in the evening than the other, heavily loaded, 'cheap' ISP.
  
  c) others claim "unlimited" but have a "Fair Use Policy" with {usually} no written limit, but simply means they can claim any user exceeding, say, 100 GB, is "impacting the network".
  
  Penalties can be financial, a throttled connection, or (after a few instances) being told to leave that ISP.
• Mar 4th, 2015 @ 12:14pm

  Re: wireless market

  on Netflix's Love Of Net Neutrality Notably Absent In Australia, Where It's Striking Cap Exempt Deals With ISPs
  "pre-paid plans on one operator charge like $0,25 for unlimited connection but it's actually a daily 10 megabytes"
  
  Please name and shame them. I have unlimited data on mobile phone (tethering permitted with "all you can eat" allowed) for GBP 15/month (US$ 22.50 or so) {plus 2000 minutes voice, 5000 minutes to users on the same network (Three UK), and 5000 text messages}.
  
  Three don't get concerned if I hit 2 GB a day, or even more.
  
  Apologies if you're not talking about mobile networks, but some wireless to home/office service.
• Mar 4th, 2015 @ 12:04pm

  Should not be so hidden ...

  on Netflix's Love Of Net Neutrality Notably Absent In Australia, Where It's Striking Cap Exempt Deals With ISPs
  The sentence "It's also worth noting that other streaming services (like ABC's iView or Foxtel's Presto) are already cap-exempt, so Netflix feels it too must be cap-exempt if it wants to enter the market on equal footing." in the last para should have been reported far earlier.
  
  With that situation in mind, it goes without saying that to compete on a level playing field in the Australian market, Netflix would need to match the competition, at least to start with.
  
  I'm in full agreement that at a later date, they could speak out, but as AC {10:30} says, they are dealing with the status quo, and cannot rock the boat right now.