Bandwidth Meter Should Gauge Costs

(RE: “ACA Summit: Metered Bandwidth Pricing Is Coming,” April 29) Consumption-based billing is fine. Charging $1 a Gig of bandwidth, when the actual market-cost of a gig of bandwidth is something on the order of a fraction of a cent, is not fine. How can Cablevision Systems in New York City offer unlimited usage at 101 Mbps for $100 a month when these companies can’t seem to offer 50 Mbps at $150 a month or more when these policies go into effect? This is what happens when competition is stifled.

Jeremy Schrimpf, Dayton, Ohio

30% Cap Must Fit Today’s Media Terrain

(RE: “FCC: 30% Cap Is Reasonable Limit To Prevent Program Bottleneck,” April 24) Perhaps the FCC should also impose a 30% cap on satellite providers such as DirectTV. Since the FCC wants to ensure that no “programming bottlenecks” develop, expanding the cap to satellite providers would, in a feeble first step, bring the FCC more in line with the technology of today’s video world.

Brian Conway, Madison, Wis.