Time Warner Cable to meter Internet usage

Is the "All you can eat" Internet buffet winding down?

 

Time Warner Cable announced last week that, it an effort to curtail the heavy costs imposed by 5% of its users, it would try to meter their usage and charge accordingly.    It's probably no surprise that this announcement came in the same week as Steve Jobs pitching Apple TV version 2.0.  (That app makes turns ITunes into a superstore of Video as well as Music --- Video downloads that must ride the backbone of ISPs down to the user's hard drive.)

 

In the 25-year old "Bell Head" vs "Packet Head" battle-royale, you can chalk one up for the Bell Heads this week.  Call Detail Records (CDRs) will probably live to see another day, this time reincarnated as something like "Byte-Detail-Records" --- and, if successfully, they'll get people to stop drawing Internet clouds (whose usage is always perceived to be free).

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN1639580720080118