The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page this week quoted "the respected geek site Ars Technica" while waxing eloquent about Internet data caps—and, rather surprisingly, they sort of agree with us that full-on metered billing poses problems for innovation But they still like larger data caps.
'Who will start using the next high-bandwidth YouTube or Netflix when doing so results in big fees? If not done right, consumption pricing will cripple innovation,' I wrote in a piece last summer. The Journal's 'Internet Data Caps Cometh' op-ed quoted this bit of wisdom and agreed that truly metered Internet would be a problem.
"If every user has an eye on a bandwidth meter, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Apple and every other big Web-based company would have to rethink its business model," wrote Holman Jenkins Jr. this week. "Advertising-based business models would especially be in jeopardy—who would click on a banner ad if it meant paying for the privilege?"
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