Time Warner To start to charge For downloads
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| They're trying to limit bandwidth and charge for high consumption. The plan is to charge a premium to its heaviest users. It definitely sucks if you're a heavy user but it shouldn't affect normal to light use much. This is really just a new, tiered pricing structure-- it shouldn't have anything at all to do with jobs.
Try reading this: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ ... =rss_daily |
| I already pay a lot for a very high speed line from Verizon.
What troubles me about the Time Warner approach is there is a cap on the high end of only 40GB. That's really nothing, and it smacks of opportunism rather than anything else. If they want to really protect their backbone, they ought to throttle back the speed of heavy users who have gone over the limit, not charge them outrageous fees like $1 per GB. |
| Right on Ron !!! |
| All the Canadian providers already have caps and charge overage fees if you go over. Sympatico's top package gives 100GB /month and is around $90 bucks a month (16 mbps)
Cogeco also has a 16mbps package with a 100GB cap but it's only about 60 bucks. Difference is Sympatico will just start charging you $1/GB up to a max of $30 bucks then it becomes unlimited, and Cogeco actually shuts you down, no overage allowed. For me though I still prefer Cogeco because they are the only one in my area that can actually provide the 16 mbps they promise, Sympatico can't actually provide more than 5mbps no matter what they charge you for. |
| Call it what they want but, it's just another way the government is monitoring (controlling) us.
They pass the rules and regulations on these companies, which in turn they have to pass on to us. Makes it look like the companies are behind it, but Big Gov. is the cause of it!!! Just another example of why we need to keep gov. out of our personal and private businesses. |
| It actually has absolutely nothing o do with the government.... it's just a business decision. |
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