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  • From: "Brian Henning" <lugmail AT cheetah.dynip.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Time Warner to meter users' Internet traffic
  • Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:29:43 -0400

Whatever ISP starts advertising no caps is gonna rake in customers hand-over-fist once TWC makes this real.  Let's hope one exists so we can throw our money at them.  With the amount of instant Netflix content I watch (7.25 hours is gone in a couple days easy), I'd be first in line to move to a non-capped provider.
 
I've never really understood by-the-bit pricing anyway (aside from a shameless money grab).  Greedy so-and-sos.
 
~B
 
-----Original Message-----
From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Greg Brown
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:11 PM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Time Warner to meter users' Internet traffic

7.25 hours of online video a week (a fraction of the 60 hours Americans spend watching TV in a week) could end up spending $200 per month on broadband usage fees.

That SUCKS!!!

I watch way more Roku content than 7.25 hours a month. 

If the commute were not so unfathomable I'd move to Wilson just for Greenlight.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, zman <zman AT shell.neverwhere.org> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Greg Brown wrote:
> What about Earthlink?  Are they going to cap usage as well?

I would think that since their stuff runs on the TWC network you'll see ti
there as well. It's all about TWC not seeing what was coming and being
complacent in delivering digital content. Now they want a piece of it.

Scott H. Zekanis
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