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Survey finds that 83% of Americans don’t understand the concept of bandwidth

Started by Duncan Riley · 9 months ago

Om Malik at GigaOm is on the anti-cap bandwagon again today, publishing a post titled “No Surprise: Survey Shows U.S. Consumers Hate Broadband Caps.”
The International Data Corporation on behalf of Zeugma Systems survey of a very small sample size of 787 people found th ... Continue reading »

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  • Kevin Walsh

    8 months ago

    Actually, the survey stated that 67% understood the meaning of “gigabyte” but didn’t know how many they used in a month. 16% did not know the meaning of “gigabyte.” How this is the same as “83% of Americans don’t understand bandwidth” is unclear to me.

    Your argument as to why people should be ok with bandwidth caps is eerily similar to why people should be ok with higher taxes. “We’ll only raise them on the rich who can truly afford to pay” is a favorite of politicians pretty much anywhere in the world. And, pretty much anywhere in the world, this tax-the-rich-and-we’ll-leave-you-alone message fails to resonate. Partly because no one trusts politicians and partly out of fear that once government starts raising taxes they’ll find it difficult to stop and pretty soon everyone will be “rich” (and pay more taxes).

    The same applies to caps. 250GB might sound like an awful lot but it’s only the starting point.
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