Public Knowledge wants to know exactly how data caps are...
Public Knowledge wants to know exactly how data caps are set, evaluated and how they could evolve over time, according to letters sent Monday to the heads of several large wireless and wireline companies. Businesses, government and the public assume…
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that the capacity to transmit information online will “keep pace with innovative imagination,” PK said. “If the networks cannot keep up, we need to know that now,” wrote President Gigi Sohn. PK also released a 56-page white paper reviewing the development and implementation of data caps, and suggesting the caps should be more transparent and shouldn’t be considered a means of creating an “artificial scarcity” of bandwidth (http://xrl.us/bm4u84). Also Monday, PK, Free Press, Consumers Union and the New America Foundation argued in a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee that data caps have no legitimate economic justification. “How can bold new models for online video and cloud computing continue to develop if consumers are discouraged from using broadband by arbitrary limits on their use, and harsh penalties for exceeding those limits,” the groups asked. CTIA responded by accusing groups like Free Press of operating “under the flawed view that networks should be free, ignoring that they are actually built and maintained through significant and ongoing investments by wireless and other broadband providers."