[ Thanks to Jose_X
for this link. ]
“Last year Time Warner Cable took a pretty severe
beating from the press and public for plans to impose not only
monthly broadband usage caps as low as 5 GB a month, but also for
their decision to charge users up to $2 per additional GB. Given
this was a 1,500-2,000% markup above bandwidth costs for the
provider, most consumers realized that the already very profitable
company was simply making a money grab — and preparing to better
monetize and/or stifle Internet video’s impact on TV revenues. The
media scuff up wasn’t helped by company executives, who issued
missives proclaiming that overcharging customers for bandwidth
during a recession was only “fair” and that it would “actually
encourage more use of broadband overall.”“Time Warner Cable eventually backed off the plan, but not
before their brand (which they’re planning to change) took a lot of
damage. One small reason they backed off was because one of the
company’s few competitors, Frontier Communications, started
advertising their DSL service as uncapped in order to gain a
competitive advantage.”