Metered internet charges
 

This could become expensive for some people. I guess I am not surprised that a company would figure out some way to get more money out of us from internet use but I am disapointed..

Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use
Monday June 2, 5:37 pm ET
By Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
Time Warner Cable starts customer trial with metered Internet access in Texas


NEW YORK (AP) -- You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers -- and, later, others -- may have to, if the company's test of metered Internet access is successful.

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On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.

Metered billing is an attempt to deal fairly with Internet usage, which is very uneven among Time Warner Cable's subscribers, said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of advanced technology.

Just 5 percent of the company's subscribers take up half of the capacity on local cable lines, Leddy said. Other cable Internet service providers report a similar distribution.

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It's alarmism.

If you haven't already been warned by your ISP in the past, you're not the problem. Don't worry about it.

I don't mind or charging extra for overuse on what's essentially free phone calls, but I draw the line on expulsion or especially fake 'system downs'.

That being said, glad I'm not on TW. If it's 1 gig a month, its ridiculous; if it's 1 gig a day, it's still a little too low. This is obviously done to prevent 'distribution of DVD content'.

I never thought of that.

Flying J does similar things. We get 15 gigs/mo. and no more.

Ugh. We internet game players would get murdered with charges..

Ah, so you're the one...

Everyone...everywhere...in every kind of business...is working overtime to figure out how to bleed the most money possible out of every possible service, item, system and product.

Taking your money is Job 1.

+1

"fair internet usage" what a load of bollox. The problem isn't the users, the problem is lack of advancement in service. And yeah, it's gamers who'll get stung rather than the ones downloading loads of movies and music. Companies want to milk the user rather than invest in greater capacity and they justify it by pointing fingers and saying 'they're not using it fairly'.....instead of people being angry at the companies for not investing we're supposed to look down on the 'unfair' users for getting more out of the system. Utter bollox.

I'll pay the dollar per Gb if they reimburse me for downtime.

Well, it's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.