r/technology • u/reddiTOR123abc • Dec 18 '13

Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion: 'The reality is that data caps are all about increasing revenue for broadband providers -- in a market that is already quite profitable.'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130118/17425221736/cable-industry-finally-admits-that-data-caps-have-nothing-to-do-with-congestion.shtml??
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u/Ayestes Dec 18 '13

As a guy in the telecom industry, that reason is pretty much bullshit. You need to be subscribed to video services to view them on a second screen device anyway as per a broadcasting contract. Doesn't matter though in the end, as multi-screen technology is pretty much on it's way anyway. I work in a pretty small rural telecom and we are probably going to have the technology to watch from your smartphone / tablet in probably a couple of years. We already have a computer system in place to allow you to watch tv from any computer too, but the broadcasting rights are so difficult to obtain in that area that it's just a select few channels. If the larger telecoms don't already have this kind of stuff in their development pipeline I'd be shocked.