Volume Control
Voices From Everywhere On Time Warner’s Bandwidth Caps
by Staff -- Multichannel News, 6/9/2008
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“Do you currently consume all of your media via digital downloads? Buy a DVD. Do you enjoy the convenience and simplicity of online backup services such as Carbonite and Mozy? Buy an external hard drive. Time Warner Cable can’t single handedly reverse the exponential technology curve that the Internet has bolstered, but it sure looks like they’re going to try.”
Zach Epstein, The Boy Genius Report http://www.boygeniusreport.com/
Don’t Leave the Fridge Door Open“I remember years ago when visionaries were telling us how our refrigerators would be connected to the Internet. Maybe I don’t want my refrigerator taking up valuable bandwidth trying to figure out if my carton of milk is going bad. It’s one goofy example, but consumers may not go for the reasonable innovations if they have to pay extra to use them.”
Joe Hodnicki, Tech Law Prof Blog http://lawprofessors.typepad.com
Cap a Boost for Bricks and Mortar?“More important, is it possible this might drive consumers back to stores to buy physical objects? Maybe Blockbuster isn’t quite as foolish as we thought! Or maybe not — you’ve seen those gas prices, right? One’s thing’s for certain: We wish we were in college again, with our unlimited university account.”
Michael D. Ayers, New York magazine’s “Vulture” http://nymag.com/daily/
Charge Now, Keep Paying Later“I thought metered bandwidth was a way of heading off regulatory action over that 'unlimited’ silliness. This convinces me that it’s a way to get us used to paying for it by the byte now, before bandwidth becomes so cheap they’d never get away with it.
The good side of metering is getting rid of secret limits and the deceptive marketing of 'unlimited’ plans. The bad side is, well, $1 a GB.”
Rob Bechizza, Boing Boing Gadgets http://gadgets.boingboing.net
