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AT&T warns: usage based broadband charging "inevitable"
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AT&T warns: usage based broadband charging "inevitable" | AT&T warns: usage based broadband charging "inevitable" |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 16 June 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 His comments follow the announcement by Time Warner Cable earlier this month that it was planning to start a trial of usage based charging, but only to new customers in one area of Texas. Heavy individual usage of cable infrastructure has a more immediate impact on other users, and hence on investment needs because local infrastructure is shared. However th AAP report said that AT&T was concerned about congestion higher up in its DSL network. And so it should be. The growth of attractive, free or low cost video services is putting enormous demands on bandwidth and under present pricing models ISPs and telcos received no additional revenue whatsoever. In the UK last year ISPs got upset about the BBC's new video distribution service that lets people watch recent programmes over the Internet. They claimed it was going to cost them by gobbling up bandwidth. And, in the US, the AAP report noted that DVD-by-mail pioneer Netflix had launched a TV set-top box that receives an unlimited stream of Internet video to a TV set for as little as $US8.99 per month. CONTINUED |
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