A Wall Street Journal op-ed writer and columnist this week quoted "the respected geek site Ars Technica" while waxing eloquent about Internet data caps—and, rather surprisingly, he sort of agrees with us that full-on metered billing poses problems for innovation But he still likes 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" column by Holman Jenkins Jr. 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 Jenkins 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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