I mentioned this in another thread, but I think it's important enough to repost here. In the US, the major broadband providers are planning to ending "unlimited" packages and start charging for broadband. Time/Warner is the test case. See below.
I've heard that limiting bandwidth is common in Europe (true?), but this is new behavior in the US where broadband providers have now consolidated into just 4 major corporations that now control internet access in most regions. As private companies, they can do what they want. Customers now must start making a choice of who they want to support. Jay __________________________________ Rep. Eric Massa was outspoken in his opposition to Time Warner Cable’s plan, calling it a monopolistic move to penalize robust Net users and “stagnate the 21st Century technology needed to rebuild America.” What really happening is TWC is unfairly trying to protect its cable TV profits from people switching over to online video. By making it prohibitively expensive for their 8.4 million customers to do much more than email and basic Web surfing, they hope to kill Internet video before it’s any more popular. We’re going out to our 500,000 activists asking other members of Congress to join Massa and call for a thorough investigation of these ant-competitive practices. Making Time Warner the Internet’s evil poster child is particularly urgent now. Other cable and phone providers (including AT&T, Charter, Cox and Comcast) are watching TWC’s trial balloon with plans to implement their own anti-video pricing schemes. The outreach is below. Here’s the presser: http://www.freepress.net/node/56030 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
