Your taxes pay for Comcast's infrastructure. (Gaming)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Monday, June 11, 2018, 08:24 (2139 days ago) @ Funkmon

So, if you're using it more heavily, upgrades will be needed sooner. The infrastructure is to access something free, but certain things cost Comcast infinitesimally more than other things.

In much the same way, you pay a taxi cab money to use their car for access to nominally free roads. But, if you take 3 other people, and use slightly more resources, meaning the car will have to be repaired ever so slightly sooner, the taxi cab charges a slightly higher rate.

This is no different.

Almost all cable networks and infrastructure build-outs were done with subsidies, or at the very least charters from the local governments. And, after they got the people to pay for it, they almost always have a legal restriction that means only they are allowed to be the cable company in that area totally removing choice and competition.

A government subsidized business with government protected monopoly power should be subject to government regulation.

Also, your car analogy is pretty misleading. even though both are fractionally higher uses, the mechanical and moving parts are far more susceptible to load-variable wear than Cable equipment, which in almost all cases has no internal moving parts.