Website review: Shooting yourself in the foot: Time...
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AvangionQ rated 6 months ago- From the page: "The idea behind usage-based billing is to charge consumers who use the most bandwidth accordingly. And telling customers that they have X GB of data to burn through each month is better than the kinds of nebulous caps some cable subscribers have bumped into. Still, I'd argue that Time Warner and any other cable company considering bandwidth caps is taking a short-sighted view of the problem." ... if they're offering a cheap alternative to unlimited download for the low bandwidth users, this is perfectly acceptable -- but if they're going to eliminate or rate hike their currently default unlimited bandwidth plan, they're going to watch as all of their high bandwidth users jump ship to their competition ...
- socalsamba rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Time Warner's plans have received a mixed reception, to say the least. Public interest groups such as Public Knowledge have praised the move, with PK president Gigi Sohn calling it a "welcome development for consumers and for the cable industry." At the other end of the spectrum are high-bandwidth users and companies who are concerned that low caps will slow down the pace of innovation on the Internet."
