Heaviest users of Web face limits on 'unlimited'

[zatoicchi]

For as long as consumers have had high-speed Internet at home, they have surfed the Web as much as they wanted, downloading any content while paying their service provider a flat monthly fee.

Those days may be ending.

Internet service providers, especially cable companies, are eyeing new pricing models to address the rapidly growing popularity of such applications as streaming online video and the sharing of large files. These programs can eat up bandwidth and cause bottlenecks, slowing service across networks. Companies such as Comcast and Time Warner also fear becoming a "dumb pipe"—providing the conduit for data-intensive Internet activity but not managing the flow or making any money from it.


Heaviest users of Web face limits on 'unlimited' -- chicagotribune.com (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/chi-sat-internet-pipeline-jul12,0,4670775.story)

[anon]

"Those days may be ending."

not without serious repercussions... for example a dsl isp here wanted to limit users to 4gb of download per month, but that measure was so rejected by users they had to remove it :mad2: you can download 4gb in just a few hours.

[Aurion]

aaah at last,they are confessing the hole they are putting users into,just wanna tell ya all that dipping bandwith in would result from controlling users internet activities regarding service usage !! anyway,I hope somebody can change things way up down soon :redface: