Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets

Akido37 writes "Time Warner Cable is expanding its transfer capping program to new markets in Rochester, NY, Austin, TX, San Antonio, TX, and Greensboro, NC. It seems they have been testing plans with 5, 10, 20, or 40GB of data transfer per month, with prices ranging from $30 to $55 a month. BusinessWeek quotes Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt saying, 'We need a viable model to be able to support the infrastructure of the broadband business ... We made a mistake early on by not defining our business based on the consumption dimension.' Ars Technica adds, 'The BusinessWeek article notes that only 14 percent of users in TWC's trial city of Beaumont, Texas even exceeded their caps at all. My own recent conversations with other major ISPs suggest that the average broadband user only pulls down 2-6GB of data per month as it is. One the one hand, this suggests that caps don't really bother most people; on the other, it indicates that low cap levels aren't needed to keep traffic 'reasonable' since it's actually quite low to begin with.'"

Here's my thoughts

[77Punker]

According to 77Punker,

Re:According to Ars Technica,

[2phar]

I think the submitter reached their cap.

Re:According to Ars Technica,

[brusk]

The poster fell into a comma.

Hmmm

[krou]

According to Ars Technica,

What, did Soulskill hit his cap or something? DAMN YOU TIME WARNER CABLE FOR KEEPING ME IN SUSPENSE!

Heh.

[faloi]

It's neither here nor there, but I recently switched away from Time Warner in Austin. My cancellation call included the sales speech that they didn't cap usage like some other plans. I resisted the urge to tell her that Time Warner would be soon, because they're following the trends.

Re:Only 40Gb/month?

[Citizen of Earth]

There have been a few months when we've been above 500GB, but have never broken the 1TB level.

This just means that you are an abusive user who should pay a hell of a lot more than I do for Internet access. I only use 1 to 2GB per month, since I rarely do bulk downloading. I think every plan should include 10GB of throughput and each additional GB should be an additional charge. Then assholes like yourself can pay your own way rather than sponging off my payments.

Re:Only 40Gb/month?

[Nevyn]

Plus, I was able to download some 8 TB of porn before there were caps, so I'm good for a while.

But what about next week?

Re:5gb is just ridiculous

[WTF Chuck]

It doesn't take that long to hit 5Gig when the cat lays on the keyboardddddddddddddddddddddddddd