An article with the above headline ran this past week on the Register’s web site. Since I recently signed up with the North Texas branch of Time Warner Cable, it was of particular interest to me.
It starts out with “Time Warner Cable is reportedly having trouble finding submissive test subjects for its proposed scheme of charging US customers by the gigabyte for their internet service.
Additional trials for the company’s new “consumption based billing” regime were slated to begin in several markets this summer, but public outcry has made the cable giant retreat from some of its attempts to stuff the all-you-can-eat internet genie back in the bottle – for now.”
According to publications I saw on the net the previous week, the company intended to expand tests of metered billing to Rochester, New York, Greensboro, South Carolina, and San Antonio and Austin, Texas.
For some reason,
So maybe we will be able to continue watching video from the Internet instead of paying premium fees to our ISP for video.
Read the full article here.
