Time Warner bandwidth caps to be expanded

Bravestime · 02-04-2009, 11:37 PM

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Last January, the ISP Time Warner announced it would be starting bandwidth caps aimed at "collecting revenue from those who utilize over half of the total network bandwidth."

In June, they began their "metered Internet trials" in Beaumont, Texas.

"We think it's the fairest way to finance the needed investment in the infrastructure," said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of advanced technology, at the time.

Today the company announced it would be expanding the metered service to new areas this year, with a "few more cities" being subject to the program.

Many critics have called Time Warner's cap, which charges users $1 USD for every GB they go over the 40GB cap, very impractical and that it may even "hurt the future" of the Internet, pushing users away from Internet video, especially legal HD downloads from places such as Amazon and iTunes.

Link: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16884.cfm

Bravestime · 02-09-2009, 01:28 AM

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Time Warner increases bandwidth caps to above 40 GB

Last January, the ISP Time Warner announced it would be starting bandwidth caps aimed at "collecting revenue from those who utilize over half of the total network bandwidth."

In June, they began their "metered Internet trials" in Beaumont, Texas and just last week the ISP announced they would be expanding the program to four other cities.

The original caps however, were 40 GB and users would be charged $1 for every GB over the cap they went. Critics found the caps to be far too limited and pointed to Comcast, who introduced 250 GB monthly caps last year, as a good starting point if bandwidth caps must be used.

It appears today that after receiving many complaints from unhappy customers, Time Warner is backtracking a bit and will increase the 40GB limit on a certain "range of packages, with higher priced plans that have a larger data "bucket" along with lower priced options for casual users."

No word on pricing yet, however we will know when the new trials begin this year.

Link: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16921.cfm

Loves2Watch · 02-09-2009, 03:12 AM

Greedy bastards. The US pays a mighty high price for internet service as it is. It would certainly be nice if we paid the price and got the high speeds they do in Europe. A poor business model like this is sure to fail and bite them in the ass.

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