As Time Warner begins experimenting with bandwidth caps, which are commonplace in other countries, the possibility now exists that ISPs will benefit financially from their customers burning through their monthly limits to keep grabbing P2P content.
What about those customers who want to treat their connections as an all-you-can-eat buffet? It's that group of customers that have the potential to rake in the most revenue for bandwidth-capping ISPs. Like it or not, a lot…
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Time Warner Cable will begin imposing bandwidth caps on consumers in Beaumont, Texas this week as part of a trial program. Consumers who exceed the bandwidth caps will pay $1 for every additional gigabyte consumed.
The caps differ depending on the tier of service paid for by the consumer. The lowest level of service is a 768Kbps connection with a 5GB cap for $29.95 per month. The high-end package will offer 15MBps with a 40GB cap for $54.90 per month….
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What seemed like a vague industry possibility just a few months ago now seems like an inevitable certainty. Multiple carriers in North America are now either employing or considering monthly caps where users pay per gigabyte should they “over eat.”
Why Not Just Make Gluttons Pay For a Business-Class Tier?
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Other than Time Warner’s single-city foray into monthly data caps, consumption-based billing has mostly been little ISPs with little monopolies, and given the market, we thought it’d stay that way. Broadband Reports is, uh, reporting that now Comcast is mulling monthly caps?something in the 250GB range, and then $1.50 for every GB over that.
One word: Verizon. JadoJodo at 01:44 AM Reply by Email * My ISP started doing this as well. It was recently bought out by Digis in Boise, Idaho. I called to complain about slow speeds and they offered to move me to a “new” plan offered…
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