Bandwidth Metering - Relegated to Selling Pipes Carriers Strike Back at Consumers
Posted by Noel Huelsenbeck on Mon, Jun 16, 2008 @ 06:07 PM
Here's an article about the bandwidth metering from the New York Times. I particularly like:
The Time Warner plan has the potential to bring Internet use full
circle, back to the days when pay-as-you-go pricing held back the Web’s
popularity. In the early days of dial-up access, America Online
and other providers offered tiered pricing, in part because audio and
video were barely viable online. Consumers feared going over their
allotted time and bristled at the idea that access to cyberspace was
billed by the hour.
The more things change the more they stay the same. The carriers may be relegated to selling "dumb pipes" but they're pretty "smart" at making money with them.