If you’re downloading a lot of movies and music off the Internet you might have to pay more for your service in the future. The trend is clear. Broadband providers will start capping the amount of bandwidth you can use.
In an article at The Street.com an AT&T spokesman was quoted saying “Usage-based pricing is one way to deal fairly with Internet usage, which is very uneven among broadband users,”. The AT&T spokesman Michael Coe,called ideas such as bandwidth caps and high-usage penalties “inevitable.”
Comcast and Time Warner Cable already have plans to star using bandwith caps. In a trial in Beaumont, Texas, Time Warner cable is charging top-tier subscribers $54.90 for about 40GB of bandwidth. If you download movies that’s not a lot.
Comcast is planning a 250 GB bandwidth limit according to DSLreports.com
One thing is clear… the days of unlimited bandwidth for broadband subscribers seems to be coming to an end soon.