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- ukit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080…
On Thursday, Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president, said the plan will be launched as a trial in Beaumont, Texas, and will consist of several tiers. The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per second with a 5GB monthly cap, while a plan at $54.90 per month will offer 15 megabits per second and a 40GB cap.
ADVERTISEMENTBoth downloads and uploads count toward the monthly total. Overages will be charged at $1 a gigabyte.
- ukit0
In other words, you can no longer download as much as you like. The model of the future (according to Time Warner) is to squeeze consumers for every GB.
- sublocked0
fuck you, time warner.
- ThePublics0
well, I haven't payed for internet in 3 years so time warner can suck a dick.
- ukit0
^right, but your neighbor might notice you've been stealing bandwidth once they start metering it;)
- drgs0
its not like a new law or something, we live in free market economy, other companies marketing assholes know how to take advantage of these things and will win the costumers over
- ThePublics0
I have faith that the internet will prevail over all these crooked old-money douch-bag corporations.
- Except that the crooked old-money douchebags run teh internet.ukit
- my internet is pure theft.ThePublics