[Mishmash] Time Warner Links Web Prices With Usage

[Richard Barth]

Should be interesting to watch.  There have been complaints that 
Comcast has been choking
downloads (e.g. via BitTorrent) and arbitrarily cancelling the 
accounts of those who have
been downloading "too much" data, without defining what "too much" is 
supposed to be.  As
the complaints go, some customers have simply been told their 
accounts are closed without
advance information as to what the limits are.

Charging by data volume seems a reasonable alternative for heavy 
users, PROVIDED the rates
for light users go down.  I'm not holding my breath for that one, 
though, and it wouldn't
affect me either way unless Comcast adopts a similar procedure.

Dick

At 10:23 PM 1/17/2008, you wrote:
>http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/technology/2008/01/17/Time.Warner.Cable.Internet/
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