Are you part of the 10% of Internet Users that use 80% of Time Warner’s Bandwidth. If you live on the net, stream audio, play games download lots of files you probably are. What would you do tomorrow if Time Warner said we don’t want you as a customer anymore and canceled your service for putting to high of a load on their infrastructure.
Yesterday at the Hawaiian Telecommunications Association I ended my part of the presentation by saying if anyone was here from Time Warner please don’t cancel my services because I am downloading legal media and pushing out media I am creating and not sharing files. I was half joking and half serious because I know from time to time that broadband providers send out messages to high usage users telling them to back off.
In a very long article titled “The Real Net Neutrality Debate: Pricing Flexibility Versus Pricing Regulation” over at The Technology Liberation Front the blogger has a lot to say on the subject of service availability and the all you can eat models that we all love so much.
It doesn’t matter if you are a 10% user or just check your e-mail the ramifications of future changes or attitude and get tough stances could change the whole net experience. [www.techliberation.com]