Congressman to introduce bill to ban download caps

Time Warner Cable plans to test its controversial, new scheme to have users pay by the gigabyte in Rochester, New York, but the area's freshman congressman calls usage caps greedy and plans to introduce legislation to stop it.

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/congressman-to.html

I am very happy about this.

Meh...I always lived with limited download connection.
People are overreacting to it being a bad thing.

Only a fool would think this bill has more than a snowballs chance in hell.

I live in Rochester. Most people here believe it's a money grab. I hope this bill passes

Meh...I always lived with limited download connection.
People are overreacting to it being a bad thing.

Lto_thaG

How is it not a bad thing?

Only a fool would think this bill has more than a snowballs chance in hell.

htekemerald

I live in Rochester. Most people here believe it's a money grab. I hope this bill passes

nohabs

It is a money grab. The TW caps are insanely low for the price.

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Meh...I always lived with limited download connection.
People are overreacting to it being a bad thing.

Guybrush_3

How is it not a bad thing?

Only a fool would think this bill has more than a snowballs chance in hell.

htekemerald

I think that there are enough democrats that are fine with limiting corperate greed for this bill to have a chance.

Only a fool would think this bill has more than a snowballs chance in hell.

htekemerald

What if hell froze?

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[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]

Meh...I always lived with limited download connection.
People are overreacting to it being a bad thing.

Lto_thaG

How is it not a bad thing?

Just because you have to deal with it doesn't mean that people shouldn't compain.

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[QUOTE="Guybrush_3"]

How is it not a bad thing?

Guybrush_3

Just because you have to deal with it doesn't mean that people shouldn't compain.

That would be nice. Can you imagine if they introduced caps in large numbers way back in the day? I doubt once caps are established the service providers are going to budge far on them. I'd hate to see innovation when it comes to thinks like movies and providing other content over the net stifled because some service providers narrow the number of possible customers due to usage caps.

Yeah,complain all you want.I'm just saying they are overreacting.Lto_thaG

How so? I use alot of bandwidth legally. If I was stuck with TW my internet bill would jump at least $20, which is bull****.

[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"] Yeah,complain all you want.I'm just saying they are overreacting.Guybrush_3

How so? I use alot of bandwidth legally. If I was stuck with TW my internet bill would jump at least $20, which is bull****.

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[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"] Yeah,complain all you want.I'm just saying they are overreacting.Lto_thaG

How so? I use alot of bandwidth legally. If I was stuck with TW my internet bill would jump at least $20, which is bull****.

I honestly don't care how much you pay. It's still BS.

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How so? I use alot of bandwidth legally. If I was stuck with TW my internet bill would jump at least $20, which is bull****.

Guybrush_3

I honestly don't care how much you pay. It's still BS.

After being stuck on a crappy BT 24 quid a month 4gb wired capped broadband I can say I support this. As soon as our contract ended we moved onto O2 broadband - no cap, wireless router for 7.50 a month because my mum's mobile's on O2 contract. Not sure whether my pay as you go O2 counts as well.tofu-lion91

Yep, Pay as you Go counts aswell. Just have to top up minimum £10 every 3 months.