April 05, 2013
On today's podcast we discuss data caps and why data is a bad way to price internet connectivity.
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Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes
here.
Subscribe to the podcast via the .xml
here.
Click
here to download the file for this week's podcast directly.
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The quest to determine why data caps really exist may be starting to wind down. ISPs have admitted, either explicitly or implicitly, that monthly data caps have nothing to do with network congestion. And, while some have started to portray data caps as legitimate forms of price discrimination, that argument did not hold up to close scrutinty either. So what's left? Why are ISPs going to all of this effort to make customers deal with something they hate?
Last week’s 
