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January 7, 2013 By News Staff
Answer: The cable industry -- for Internet usage
Nearly three and a half years after Time Warner Cable proposed imposing limits on how much its broadband customers could download, the company is conducting tests that charge customers for how much data they use -- and penalizes them for exceeding their limits, the Huffington Post reported.
One of Time Warner's new pricing plans includes a $5 savings on customers' monthly bills if they "accept a cap that's the equivalent of streaming two HD movies. They would pay $1 for every gigabyte over the monthly limit."
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IT IS ABOUT TIME TO QUIT AND GET RID OF CORPORATE GREED.
It is long overdue. I've been sick and tired of supporting others who are using 10 times more than me. Perhaps this will even begin to curb a little of the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material.
I would like to see more of this as I feel I am subsidizing others. I also want to pay for cable tv services alacarte as I am forced to pay for services I don't want or use in the prepackaged choices I am given
The big companies are making plenty of money and this is just another avenue to get more. We used to pay-per-use for mobile phone service and it was more expensive for everyone.
Capping to streaming the equivalent of two HD movies? Sounds like they're out to destroy the online movie market, which of course is in direct competition with their pay-per-view movie service, not just cap the broadband usage.
Does it really matter? You are going to be overcharged either way until there is real competition. Without competition, you don't pay based on cost. You pay what cable companies can get out of you.