Digital Divisions

Broadband by the bit

In the past few months high-speed Internet service providers have begun to offer faster plans that charge by the gigabyte. The plans give you a preset limit of how much data you can download every month, and if you go over, you get hit with fees.

There is one service provider in Oregon is offering these plans now. The customer gets a fast download speed of 16Mbps which is around 3 times the speed of most basic cable Internet connections. But if you download more that 50Gb of webpages, videos, music or etc., you get slapped with overage fees. New Internet services like YouTube and movie download services from iTunes or Netflix will consume these allowances pretty quick.

Time-Warner, one of the largest cable Internet providers, announced that they would trial these programs in Texas back in January.

Looks like we’ve come full circle from the dial-up days of monthly minute limits. I’m pretty sure customers didn’t like having to watch the clock before, and I’m sure they’ll really enjoy trying to figure out how much data they’ve used with these new plans.

via Gizmodo
The service provider in Oregon - BendBroadband