Quote Originally Posted by LastFireAce View Post
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Nothing is going to happen with the repealed regulations at the moment. There are several steps that have to be done first, including going to court.

Assuming that those regulations are successfully removed, I see nothing happening to FF14.

Quote Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon View Post
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I keep seeing these examples of pricing tiers and packages, and there is no context applied at all.

• What is the infrastructure like in these countries?
• Are the ISPs government owned or heavily regulated by the government?
• How many ISPs within the country? Do those ISPs compete? Can the ISPs share their traffic over other ISPs method of transportation (lines, towers, etc.)?
• What are the regulatory rules for data within those countries (example: are you allowed to have unlimited data or are you capped)?

As someone who is a shill for the ISP, and works for one of them, I can state that context is important to when stating these tiers and packages. Some of the countries that have these types of plans have them because of government regulations and/or infrastructure. For example, when dealing with countries like China, who have per-byte type plans, the infrastructure within the country is still poor compared to the USA. There is also the fact that the Chinese government owns the utilities there.

I can see an ISP try to pull what you are stating within the USA, and get reamed for it. Ever since we could have access here to the internet here in the USA, you just paid for bandwidth. I can’t see this being changed unless an ISP wanted to commit suicide.

You can trust me *puts on jack boots* that nothing is going to *puts on riot gear* affect your *puts on obvious Nazi metaphorical patches onto company uniform* gaming experience on *grabs paper containing addresses of all customers* FF14 *leaves to take everyone’s first-born child/cats*.