Actually, it's not a Time Warner issue only. I've received a letter from my ISP in which they state that I've been downloading too much and I should consider moving up to a more expensive plan. I think that ISPs that have some sort of participation in VoD are playing the silly game of capping our downloading, so you can choose their VoD service instead. It ain't going to happen.
here in new orleans we are stuck with cox, no real other choice unless u want crappy ATT dsl and ina year or so uverse. while lafayette ( a realy crappy town in the state of lousiana ) has fiber, the people voted for the local gov to build its own network, and they offer 50MB connections for less then dsl or cable offers 15MB connections, and next year they are movng up to a 100MB connections, they offer a min connection of 10MB)
I'm all for cooperative utilities. I think all utilities should be owned by the people that they serve. That way, there's no confusion about who's in charge.
They'll probably all do it sooner or later. Bandwidth consumption is only going to get worse for providers and I think they know it themselves. It must also have occurred to them that a limit is a way to tie users to their own services - "our VOD / IPTV service does not count towards your download limit".
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Why bring it up? If you have Time Warner, you should switch to another provider.
Actually, it's not a Time Warner issue only. I've received a letter from my ISP in which they state that I've been downloading too much and I should consider moving up to a more expensive plan. I think that ISPs that have some sort of participation in VoD are playing the silly game of capping our downloading, so you can choose their VoD service instead. It ain't going to happen.
not everyone can switch providers
here in new orleans we are stuck with cox, no real other choice unless u want crappy ATT dsl and ina year or so uverse. while lafayette ( a realy crappy town in the state of lousiana ) has fiber, the people voted for the local gov to build its own network, and they offer 50MB connections for less then dsl or cable offers 15MB connections, and next year they are movng up to a 100MB connections, they offer a min connection of 10MB)
I'm all for cooperative utilities. I think all utilities should be owned by the people that they serve. That way, there's no confusion about who's in charge.
They'll probably all do it sooner or later. Bandwidth consumption is only going to get worse for providers and I think they know it themselves. It must also have occurred to them that a limit is a way to tie users to their own services - "our VOD / IPTV service does not count towards your download limit".