Boycott Time Warner.
New Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte.
Cable companies' poor-mouthing is disingenuous at best. They were making 40 percent margins on Internet access a few years ago. Bandwidth costs to them have slowed down, but those savings have not been passed onto customers.
Metered Internet service may provide another benefit for Time Warner and Comcast. It could stop people from canceling their cable service and bringing shows straight from the Internet to their TVs.
Relying primarily on Internet connectivity to work, small businesses and home-office users might be the most impacted by any bandwidth cap enforcement by major ISPs.
Violating Net Neutrality can be done in many ways: censoring content, impeding competitors' access, and blocking certain content. Or it could simply be the imposition of a tiered Internet that looks more like cable TV.
The Washington Post has again taken the low road on keeping a free and open Internet. In its latest editorial, the newspaper of record in the nation's capital again declined to view the reality of a duopoly broadband market and a lack of consumer choices.
A filmmaker-activist group claims a source at a major telco revealed that the industry is colluding on plans to make the Internet subscription-based -- obliterating Net Neutrality and dooming much of the non-mainstream Internet content that exists today.
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