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Here at Ars we spend a lot of time writing about data caps—those ceilings on how much broadband data you can use before your ISP taps you on the shoulder and tells you it's time to pay more. Depending on where you live, these can range from "inconvenient" to "ruinous." For instance, consider the Middle East's Kingdom of Bahrain.
It could be worse: data caps around the world
Broadband is an extraordinarily profitable service. Top Wall Street analysts John Hodulik of UBS and Craig Moffett of Bernstein both report broadband margins of 90% based on official company filings. My own figure is more like a 75% margin because I allocate additional costs, but either implies running a broadband network is actually inexpensive in relation to the price charged.
Wireline Costs and Caps: A Few Facts
Amazon just became a major player in the OTT video subscription business. Today they announced their Amazon Prime members can now access over 5,000 movie and TV titles on their Amazon Instant Video service , at no additional charge. With the move, Amazon takes on companies like Netflix and Hulu, both of which also offer subscription OTT video services. “Millions of Amazon Prime members already enjoy the convenience of free Two-Day Shipping,” said Robbie Schwietzer, vice president of Amazon Prime.
Amazon Enters OTT Video Subscription Business, Takes on Netflix, Hulu | Telecompetitor
Désengorger les "autoroutes de l'information" en instaurant des "voies prioritaires" : c'est l'une des mesures clés du projet qu'a dévoilé le ministre de l'économie numérique, Eric Besson , mardi 8 février, lors d' un discours aux rencontres parlementaires sur le numérique. "Le trafic échangé sur Internet croît globalement de 50 % chaque année. (...) Face à ce risque de saturation, se pose la question de la régulation du trafic" , estime le ministre, qui file la métaphore des "autoroutes de l'information". "Les associations représentant les camionneurs, c'est-à-dire ceux qui occupent une place dominante et sans cesse croissante des autoroutes, prônent une neutralité totale vis-à-vis du trafic. Mais en cas de saturation, ce seront l'ensemble des utilisateurs qui ne pourront plus avancer , y compris les particuliers utilisant leurs voitures, y compris les ambulances nécessitant un trafic accéléré."
Eric Besson, la neutralité du Net et les autoroutes de l'information - LeMonde.fr
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auひかりにおける大量データ送信制限の開始について ｜ auひかり（auの光ファイバーサービス）
1日あたり30GBの目安：DVDに格納されるデータ量 （ 1枚約4.7GB ） を1日に約6枚、音楽CD （ 1枚約700MB ） を1日に約43枚、またはデジカメ写真（1枚約6MB （ 1，200万画素をJPEG方式 （ 高画質モード ） で記録した場合を想定 ） ） を1日に約5,000枚データ送信することに相当するデータ量となります。Summary : Within the last eight years, the size of the average web page has more than septupled, and the number of external objects has more than tripled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, dial-up users have been left behind. The size of the average web page of the top 1000 websites has more than septupled since 2003.(our last update in July 2009 found it more than quintupled) From 2003 to 2011 the average web page grew from 93.7K to over 679K (see Figure 1), over 7.2 times larger (Domenech et al. 2007, Flinn & Betcher 2008, Charzinsk 2010, Souders 2011).
