Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic
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| One of them, Time Warner Cable, began a trial of “Internet metering” in one
| Texas city early this month, asking customers to select a monthly plan and
| pay surcharges when they exceed their bandwidth limit. The idea is that
| people who use the network more heavily should pay more, the way they do for
| water, electricity, or, in many cases, cellphone minutes.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/technology/15cable.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1213711461-Ks4R1ajCoNWNQvY+4byuKA
http://tinyurl.com/56ps2a
It was only a matter of time until some bright spark came up with this
idea. The problem (in the UK at least - don't know about stateside) is
that the infrastructure of the net is woefully inadequate.
There is hope however. Those of you that follow the news may have heard
about the company selling broadband by cable without digging the roads
up. They're basically laying fibre through the sewers and have plans to
roll it out to the entire UK. BT's crappy 21CN will look so fucking
antiquated when this happens.
How long until spotty nerds are overheard bragging about the amount of
bandwidth their shitpipe can take :)
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