NCTA slammed a new bill to regulate ISP data caps. The...
NCTA slammed a new bill to regulate ISP data caps. The Data Cap Integrity Act, introduced Thursday (CD Dec 21 p13) by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., seeks to standardize Internet data caps and offer consumers more control over their data…
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usage (http://xrl.us/bn7c28). The bill “ignores the substantial pro-consumer benefits of usage-based pricing,” the cable association said in a Friday news release. “Tiered pricing is common throughout our economy, consumers both understand and appreciate it and the FTC and FCC have said it is sensible and fair,” it said. “While congestion management may be one effect of tiered pricing, the primary benefits are consumer choice and fairness. Usage tiers give consumers more choices to better fit their bandwidth needs, and they rightly distinguish between low-volume users and high-volume users as is true for many products and services."