{"id":1085,"date":"2010-11-17T22:37:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T05:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2010-11-17T22:37:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T05:37:04","slug":"whats-wrong-with-usage-based-billing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/11\/17\/whats-wrong-with-usage-based-billing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Wrong With Usage-Based Billing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmedia.ca\/meter\">OpenMedia.ca wants to Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use<\/a>. But if all kinds of bandwidth were charged at the same rate (so that the carriers couldn&#8217;t favour one type of content, such as cable tv over another, such as internet) then usage based billing would be perfectly fair and would undermine the arguments usually given for &#8220;throttling&#8221;. So why is this considered a problem (except for heavy users who want me to subsidize their bandwidth)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenMedia.ca wants to Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use. But if all kinds of bandwidth were charged at the same rate (so that the carriers couldn&#8217;t favour one type of content, such as cable tv over another, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/11\/17\/whats-wrong-with-usage-based-billing-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[165,164],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","category-web","tag-internet-charges","tag-usage-based-billing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}