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by Nyetan 3874 days ago
Behold, the problem net neutrality has searched for: Bell Mobility circa 2013 [1]. For $5, you could buy either 10 hours of Bell Mobile TV™ or ~1.5 hours of Netflix (not including your subscription) [2]. Assumptions below. The story has a happy ending, in that the Canadian equivalent of the FCC wound up forcing them to change their pricing after four or five years [3]. Whoo. What's a few million dollars between friends.

Make up your own mind as to whether you want this to be your future.

Assumptions:

1 Mbit/s video streams

Data purchased in 5GB ($35) chunks. Note that, if purchased in 500 MB chunks, one can watch 15 minutes of Netflix, which is laughable and therefore not presented due to shock value.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20121220034331/http://www.bell.c...?

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130102055752/http://www.bell.c...

[3]:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bell-denie...