Time Warner metered pricing
p2pnet news | Product News:- Time Warner has confirmed it’s to test a new pricing scheme which would mean high-bandwidth customers being charged higher prices than other users.
“Cable companies claim to have limitations on how much traffic they can support,” says Free Press policy director Ben Scott.
“Some Internet service providers have claimed that the only way to manage their networks is to disconnect customers when they cross a mysterious line of ‘overuse’ or by secretly blocking applications like BitTorrent with an eye toward stifling competition.”
Metered prices may a little better, but notheless, they “chill innovation in cutting-edge applications because consumers will have a disincentive to use them,” says Free Press.
The best answer to any capacity crunch is to build the kind of high-capacity networks available in the world’s leading broadband nations, says Scott, adding:
“If smart, open access policies and genuine competition are working in Asia and Scandinavia, why not in America?”
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January 18th, 2008 at 11:35 am
haha. i just upgraded from 10000kbps to 25000kbps for less than $10 more.
and absolutely no restrictions or choking on any customer – no matter what package they have.
my cable company LOVES P2P!!!!
USA is so backward and far behind the times.
*****
miley who?
January 18th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Once I will have enought of this I will switch to WIFI open network (growing right now as we speak.) and ditch my ISP for good. Eventually no one will be able to control communication between people.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I recently was over looking Telus’s pricing policy and the high speed they offer has a 60gb up/down limit and it says they charge $2 each additional GB. But I havent seen it on my bill. Cause if I do I will switch or at least grab a wireless and go off the 5 people in my neighborhood that have unsecured routers.