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What? LOL. No it won't. A few providers will lift them temporarily and then go right back to how things were in a couple of months.

> the very fact that the limits can be lifted at will or certain high-traffic categories (such as a broadband company’s own streaming TV channels) can be exempted [... proves that] there is definitively enough capacity for the network to be used without those caps

Someone doesn't understand how the Internet works.

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Please connect the dots here; what you've written is nonsensical without further explanation. The technical argument in TFA is pretty simple: if this traffic level is feasible now, it will also be feasible in a couple of months. If instead you're making a point about how horrible FCC is, then be more explicit about it.

The cable company's own streaming channels are presumably served from servers on the company's own infrastructure, and the traffic from them to your home does not leave their own infrastructure. So, presumably, that does not count against your internet cap because from the cable company's point of view it is not using the internet. To them, it's part of their intranet.

I don't think that's really what we're talking about? Anyway, it's incorrect, because backhaul is cheap. The whole reason we have to deal with Comcast etc. is the many barriers to competition over the "last mile".

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