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Time Warner Cable renounces highest tier bandwidth cap prices

by Shawn Ingram on Apr 17, 2009 at 05:09 PM

Time Warner Cable recently announced that it would be expanding its tier pricing program.  The tier pricing would make TWC subscribers choose a tier based on how much they can afford to pay and how much bandwidth they think they will use.  It caused a lot of uproar among the… Continue Reading »

Time Warner Cable announces highest tier bandwidth cap prices

by Shawn Ingram on Apr 10, 2009 at 03:08 PM

Remember the good old days when all we needed to worry about from our ISPs was net neutrality?  Those were great days when there were no caps on what we could use our Internet connection for, and we were scared it might turn into cable TV-like subscription.  Now not only… Continue Reading »

Cox introduces new bandwidth management policy

by Sue Walsh on Jan 29, 2009 at 09:32 PM

Cox Communications is introducing a new bandwidth management policy that is sure to have many of its users up in arms.  The cable and internet provider says it will begin ranking the importance of different kinds of internet use and then limit the bandwidth to those activities they consider low… Continue Reading »

Florida Attorney General fines Comcast over data caps

by Sue Walsh on Sep 9, 2008 at 09:39 AM

The state of Florida had fined Comcast a mere $150,000 in a settlement with the Attorney General after customers complained about having their service cut off for consuming too much bandwidth. The problem was Comcast refused to tell their customers just how much was too much.  $100,000 of the fine… Continue Reading »

Sprint defends its 5GB bandwidth cap

by Mark Pascua on May 28, 2008 at 07:40 AM

After several cries and complaints, Sprint has finally explained its decision to cap its “unlimited” data usage plan to 5GB a month, plus 300MB a month of off-network roaming. According to Sprint, the new limit is plenty enough, since it only affects 0.5% of customers. Sprint also notes that the… Continue Reading »

GoDaddy hosted police-rating site shutdown: Was it censorship or bandwidth limitations?

by Arnold Zafra on Mar 13, 2008 at 05:29 PM

Is GoDaddy playing censorship God again or did the police ranking site RateMyCop actually really hit its bandwidth limit? RateMyCop has been gaining popularity lately because it allows visitors to post comments and ratings on police officers. It would have been alright if the site was not disclosing officer names… Continue Reading »

Nortel to bring 40B-bps network speed

by Arnold Zafra on Mar 12, 2008 at 09:15 PM

Nortel is bringing in a new optical technology that will speed up telecommunication companies network speeds. The optical technology will improve network speeds up to 40G-bps, four times faster than today’s standard network speed provided by telecommunications company. Nortel is introducing the new technology to help telecommunications company provide the… Continue Reading »

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