Comments on: 10 Things to Know and Hate About Metered Broadband

By: BIT RATE » Blog Archive » NCTA’s McSlarrow Tired Of Hearing About Supposed ‘Threat’ of Internet Video

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:19:52 +0000

[...] bandwidth-pricing schemes are anything other than pricing gouging (LA Times), an attempt to discourage Internet-video usage (GigaOm), or [...]

By: Time Warner Expands Metered Broadband Rollout

Time Warner Expands Metered Broadband Rollout — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:16:09 +0000

[...] In an earlier interview with a local Time Warner Cable engineer, he noted that the average Austin TWC customer downloads 6 GB per month. Given that Time Warner’s tiers range from 5 GB per month at $29.95 on the low end to 40 GB per month for $54.90 at its peak, with 10 GB and 20 GB tiers falling somewhere in between, it sounds like the average Austin resident will have to pay around $40 a month for 7 Mbps down. Plus $1 per GB in overage fees. Needless to say, I’m not looking forward to it. [...]

By: Five Festivus Grievances for Online Video « NewTeeVee

Five Festivus Grievances for Online Video « NewTeeVee — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:37:27 +0000

[...] Bandwidth caps and metered access. They stink, they’ll stifle innovation and the only “winners” will be the greedy cable and [...]

By: AT&T Promises Bandwidth Limits: How will this effect streaming media service providers? « Splice of Life Weblog

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:33:34 +0000

[...] 10 Things to Know and Hate About Metered Broadband [...]

By: Ten Things Thursdays “10 Things to Know and Hate About Metered Broadband” « Walking through Life

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:42:11 +0000

[...] Ten Things Thursdays “10 Things to Know and Hate About Metered Broadband” Source: GigaOM Since we’re getting in a huff over Comcast’s 250 GB cap, we thought it would be helpful to lay out why capping broadband is a bad idea today and a worse one for tomorrow, how it can benefit ISPs, and why it’s not really necessary on most networks. Check out our handy overview and l [...] [...]

By: GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM

GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:38:27 +0000

[...] of a new Internet era, one that is both monitored and metered. It is an era that threatens to limit innovation and to a large extent, the possibilities for new [...]

By: GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM

GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:38:27 +0000

[...] of a new Internet era, one that is both monitored and metered. It is an era that threatens to limit innovation and to a large extent, the possibilities for new [...]

By: GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM

GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:38:27 +0000

[...] of a new Internet era, one that is both monitored and metered. It is an era that threatens to limit innovation and to a large extent, the possibilities for new [...]

By: Will Incumbents Stifle Innovation? | Zensible

Will Incumbents Stifle Innovation? | Zensible — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:55:04 +0000

[...] on numerous occasions, and you very well know that I am quite alarmed by new impositions such as silly bandwidth caps and attempts to do away with Net [...]

By: Vlad

Vlad — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:31:15 +0000

There was a good point in regards to calling company and asking for your spending status somewhere on another blog. You just have to justify it accordingly.
The procedure should be as follows: customer calls to check in because they want to preserve the bandwidth from checking their balance every time AND in case there are inaccuracies the customer wants someone to talk to (so you bypass the automated system that tells you your balance). Tell the rep that certain pages/files/movies/music didn’t load the first time so you had to restart the download AND you demand the credit for that.

Do it often enough and given the overload of manual labor associated with that there’s a big chance the company will give up.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:57:18 +0000

Let’s just hope they don’t find a way to charge you for the air your breathing!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:53:22 +0000

To put it simplely:

It’s nothing but greed!!!!!

By: Will Incumbents Stifle Innovation? - GigaOM

Will Incumbents Stifle Innovation? - GigaOM — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:33:51 +0000

[...] on numerous occasions, and you very well know that I am quite alarmed by new impositions such as silly bandwidth caps and attempts to do away with Net [...]

By: Roku: We Ain’t Afraid of No Caps « NewTeeVee

Roku: We Ain’t Afraid of No Caps « NewTeeVee — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:30:58 +0000

[...] Afraid of No Caps Sure, most of us can get pretty fired up over the thought of a monthly 250 GB bandwidth cap, but what about the companies that provide online video services? After all, as Om pointed out, the [...]

By: Why Metered Broadband Will Hurt Businesses And Consumers ~ The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:47:21 +0000

[...] Source [...]

By: NBT: Network Cap, una pessima idea presente e futura

NBT: Network Cap, una pessima idea presente e futura — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:13:03 +0000

[...] è il cap di 250 GB/mese, di cui questo Blornale ha dato informazione la scorsa settimana. Secondo alcuni osservatori, tuttavia, l’idea di applicare un cap è una pessima idea, tanto nell’immediato quanto [...]