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By: Looking For More Money – San Ramon looking for more economic stimulus money – ContraCostaTimes « Looking For More Money

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:41:52 +0000

[...] Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer BytesYou only have to look at carriers in the mobile market who aggressively moved their What we might be limited by in downloads per month Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer [...]

By: Free Press Asks Congress for Metered Broadband Inquiry

Free Press Asks Congress for Metered Broadband Inquiry — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:01:19 +0000

[...] have been tight-lipped about their bandwidth bills, and that most investigations reveal that the costs of providing service are trending down, the Free Press is also calling on Congress to ask ISPs how much bandwidth really [...]

By: Frontier Delays Tiered Broadband to Catch TWC’s Customers

Frontier Delays Tiered Broadband to Catch TWC’s Customers — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:55 +0000

[...] downloads 1.5 GB per month, my guess is the network won’t be overrun anytime soon, but the lure of additional revenue from tiered pricing plans may return as soon as 2010. [...]

By: Yo FCC. You Doing Anything About Metered Broadband? - GigaOM

Yo FCC. You Doing Anything About Metered Broadband? - GigaOM — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:20:07 +0000

[...] if consumers continue to use the network constantly, then they will have to pay more and more cash. In an earlier post, we did the math on how carriers are going to gouge consumers and pointed out what you can do with [...]

By: Scrabulous spells Friday links › Nick Gehring

Scrabulous spells Friday links › Nick Gehring — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:58:26 +0000

[...] Capped Internet access a threat to your online video efforts? – Do you know how much bandwidth you use in an average month? I sure don’t. But for us newspaper/tv/online people, capped bandwidth could mean a dint in our online growth, particularly in video. [...]

By: ISPs Have Great Idea for Broadband Rules - GigaOM

ISPs Have Great Idea for Broadband Rules - GigaOM — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:14:01 +0000

[...] today. These are the same ISPs currently trying out some very unfriendly consumer tactics, such as tiered broadband and traffic blocking, which makes Connected Nation look like the fox guarding the hen [...]

By: Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google & Us - GigaOM

Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google & Us - GigaOM — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:31:20 +0000

[...] Competition and an aggressive last-mile build have resulted in reasonable usage-based pricing models in Japan. OCN, the carrier operated by NTT Communications, is planning for unlimited download bandwidth usage and a 30-gigabyte limit on daily upload usage capacity. By my estimates, that will be more than adequate for all but the largest consumers of Internet bandwidth and does not invoke any horror scenarios for the large content owners. [...]

By: Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google & Us - GigaOM

Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google & Us - GigaOM — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:31:20 +0000

By: teh TODDtastic webLog-a-majig » Blog Archive » Who do ISPs think they are?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:15:12 +0000

[...] just read an article stating that major ISPs are planning to roll out the “charge-per-gigabyte” billing [...]

By: Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer Bytes | The Hollow Men - The Politics of Deception

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:06 +0000

[...] videos or a new security patch, blame your service provider for not evolving with the Internet.read more | digg [...]