Want some 4k video with your broadband cap? Good luck with that
photo: LG
Most users don’t go over their ISP’s broadband caps – but this could change quickly once 4K movies are delivered to consumers online. Read more »
As broadband caps turn 4, it’s time for the FCC to take action
Broadband caps are spreading like Kudzu but the FCC has no oversight of how ISPs implement them or who they affect. While, the agency is showing signs of waking up to the problem, we’ve laid out three areas where it needs to take action. Read more »
Is Comcast considering a 500 GB broadband cap?
Comcast may change its stance on a blanket broadband usage cap of 300GB. DSLReports says the nation’s largest ISP is thinking of a 500 gigabyte per month cap for users who buy faster speeds. Comcast declined to comment. Read more »
Netflix exec: Canada’s broadband caps “almost a human rights violation”
Low broadband caps in Canada put that country close to third-world countries, and overage charges almost amount to human rights violations: Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos blasted broadband caps and usage-based-billing employed by Canadian ISPs during an investor event Thursday afternoon. Read more »
DoJ to investigate cable companies; will cord cutters get a respite?
The Department of Justice is looking into the power that cable providers have over how and where consumers can access television content via the Internet. It’s a step that acknowledges the vertical integration of cable as well as their control over the last mile. Read more »
Get your gig on, developers!
The folks at the Kauffman Foundation have teamed up with Google to create a portal where folks can submit their ideas for gigabit application that could use the proposed fiber to the home network that Google plans to build in both Kansas Cities. Lucky them. Read more »
Why Time Warner Cable is buying Insight for $3B
Time Warner Cable plans to buy Insight Communications, the nation’s ninth-largest cable company, in a deal worth $3 billion as the industry realizes it needs to streamline. The deal offers TWC greater scale as well as about $100 million in annual cost efficiencies. Read more »
Let’s talk about the broadband-cap gap
photo: Flickr user Ryan Franklin
The cautionary tales around broadband caps are trickling in and as I read them I wonder if amid these caps the web ecosystem is failing consumers (and maybe teleworkers) when it comes to broadband and cloud services.Here’s how and where things are breaking down. Read more »
Is it time to start factoring data into cost of app ownership?
Though smartphone users compare the relative cost of their apps by their price, the better measure now that data caps are looming may be the cost of ownership which factors in data usage, argues the maker of a news aggregation app. Read more »
Android Smartphones Consume More Data. Here’s Why.
Android smartphones are the most data hungry, according to new statistics from Nielsen Co., blowing past the iPhone and other smartphones. But does this indicate more usage on the part of Android users or something inherent in the platform that lends itself to more data use? Read more »
Netflix: ISPs Kill Web Freedom, Suck All Profits
Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix won’t take the ISPs attacks against his business any longer. He released a report showing that heavy bandwidth users incur a cost of 1 penny or less per gigabyte over a last-mile network — far less than ISPs are charging. Read more »
AT&T Bandwidth Caps Are Here: How Much Data Do You Use?
AT&T rolled out its bandwidth caps this weekend, which will result in additional charges for customers that use more than 150 GB per month. How close are you to those caps? Check your AT&T or Comcast bandwidth meter and let us know in our survey. Read more »
Forget P2P. Now ISPs Really Hate Netflix
Netflix has become the new scapegoat for Internet Service Providers eager to cap, tier or otherwise make broadband more expensive for their customers in the guise of chastising bandwidth hogs. Data out from startup Mu Dynamics drives the streaming site’s pariah status home. Read more »
Will Content Streaming Make ISPs Rich?
Two announcements on Monday night illustrated the yin and yang of the streaming market. Amazon announced a cloud storage drive and cloud music service, and Netflix said it would have to degrade the quality of video streams in response to bandwidth caps. Read more »
Help Us Create a Broadband Bill of Rights
On Friday, Comcast filed its network management plan, which we covered as did NewTeeVee. However, in the comments of the post, it became clear that customers don’t really know what they’re buying when they shell out $30 to $100 a month for a broadband connection. So […] Read more »
