Andre Yoskowitz
5 Feb 2009 0:29
Last January, the ISP Time Warner announced it would be starting bandwidth caps aimed at "collecting revenue from those who utilize over half of the total network bandwidth."
In June, they began their "metered Internet trials" in Beaumont, Texas.
"We think it's the fairest way to finance the needed investment in the infrastructure," said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of advanced technology, at the time.
Today the company announced it would be expanding the metered service to new areas this year, with a "few more cities" being subject to the program.
Many critics have called Time Warner's cap, which charges users $1 USD for every GB they go over the 40GB cap, very impractical and that it may even "hurt the future" of the Internet, pushing users away from Internet video, especially legal HD downloads from places such as Amazon and iTunes.