Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections
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Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections
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#2Smart message, hopefully it is received at the cell phone companies. I noticed TMobile is going to give everyone unlimited internet for a couple months whether you have that plan or not - but they didn't say if they were going to avoid shutoff's for no pay.
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#3message needed in this time. Please don't think about money in times like this. we need each other and we are all in this together. stay safe and let other's be safe too.
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#4to all those who are blackhat , this is not the time to commit crimes and give people reason to want to dissconnect services, if you are a criminal at least realize that you are overtaxing your bread and butter.
give it a break for a while until the system can handle the load of light and dark together
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#5Eh.. there won’t be. But it’s not because of some altruistic motivations, it’s bad PR and the sheer numbers of lost customers would out weight the benefit of terminating for non-pay.
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#6Here in Australia, a few responsible providers like Aussie Broadband have already announced unmetered data usage and temporarily stopping all service suspensions.
https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/blog/aussie-broadband-ann...
Edit: The real test though will be the bandwidth of our gov-sponsored, substandard, widely FTTN (instead of full FTTP).
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#7Eh.. there won’t be. But it’s not because of some altruistic motivations, it’s bad PR and the sheer numbers of lost customers would out weight the benefit of terminating for non-pay.
At least in the US, the few the major residential ISP's have a virtual monopoly so wont loose many customers and have proven in the past not to give a $#@ about bad PR.
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#8to all those who are blackhat , this is not the time to commit crimes and give people reason to want to dissconnect services, if you are a criminal at least realize that you are overtaxing your bread and butter. give it a break for a while until the system can handle the load of light and dark together
Sadly, I think the people who are irresponsible enough to commit crimes in normal times are also going to be irresponsible enough to commit crimes in a crisis situation, and even to look for ways they can exploit a crisis to their own benefit.
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#9Internet should be viewed as a utility.
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#10to all those who are blackhat , this is not the time to commit crimes and give people reason to want to dissconnect services, if you are a criminal at least realize that you are overtaxing your bread and butter. give it a break for a while until the system can handle the load of light and dark together
I'd think that right now blackhat is having the time of their life as more and more holes are opened up to allow for things like remote work as unfortunate as that is.