Comments on: As Web Viewing Expands, Bandwidth Caps Emerge

By: Goodbye Pork Pie 'Cap' - Corporate Blog - Dialogic Exchange Network

Goodbye Pork Pie 'Cap' - Corporate Blog - Dialogic Exchange Network — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:13:53 +0000

[...] one caught me completely by surprise. This Neilson Report talks about how certain US cable companies have placed bandwidth caps on the total amount of data [...]

By: Erica

Erica — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:13:49 +0000

A cap on usage, just the idea of it, infuriates me. I am a freelance artist who works from home, all my clients/publishers are many states away. The only way I send finished work to them is through ftp, and often the files get quite large. I can’t afford to start paying premiums on this.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:15:10 +0000

Rick I agree that extremely low caps will facilitate the process of customers using substitute products or switching to competitive options offering much larger, or no caps at all(FiOS currently). FiOS’ fiber network, though relatively small, is growing in popularity and will increasingly become attractive to customers in cities covered by its expansion footprint.

The internet is affecting content delivery models across the board. Newspapers are/have been dying, video is now increasingly moving from the cable tubes to the internet in the same fashion, and the delivery for gaming is following similar trends.

Yes the internet allows for information and content to be consumed near instantaneously, and by a huge audience, but its the convenience that consumers value. People are busier than ever and the internet allows them to get the content they want, whenever they want.

The growth in online video is just one example of the many online delivery platforms that will continue to grow and affect bandwidth consumption.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:56:34 +0000

While I am not a fan of bandwidth caps, if TW is going to do it, the true incremental costs of service must be reflected. This is a *fraction* of the amounts they have published.

All TW is doing when they put these ridiculous ideas out there is giving AT&T another argument for customers to switch to U-Verse.

By: franck

franck — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:55:30 +0000

i agree this last comment. I think their goal is to increase the costs

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:19:30 +0000

The bandwidth cap is nothing more than a means of stifling competition, If people can watch tv over their internet connection for free they will be less willing to pay the ever increasing and frankly outrageous costs of cable packages. The cable industry’s answer is not of course to lower pricing or offer a-la-cart serivices but simply to increase the cost of their internet offerings to make sure its too expensive to use them for tv.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:52 +0000

Time Warner offers 5GB an month!? That’s not even close to one HD movie download and average internet use would gobble that up in no time. So you mean to tell me, if I had that plan, and downloaded one HD movie off the Playstation Network, I would not just be out of bandwidth, I would be over by almost double!? Are they insane? That’s not even reasonable!