All-you-can-eat Internet pricing may be doomed
By Scott Canon | McClatchy Newspapers
Your days of all-you-can-eat Internet buffet may be coming to an end.
Probably not tomorrow, but soon enough, industry analysts say.
Cable giant Time Warner recently toyed with essentially putting meters on its customers' downloads. It abruptly backed off in the face of a revolt that was organized - where else? - on the Internet.
Still, the company shelved rather than killed the plan. Experts say that changes in the way people use the Internet - and the way some gorge on its endless cache of data - mean current pricing systems could go the way of your dial-up modem.
A metered pricing system has been in effect in Lawrence for four years. While Sunflower Broadband has heard some complaints, for most Web surfers it has kept monthly charges flat. Some users have seen steep cuts in their bills, while relatively few have had to pony up extra bucks to devour gigabytes.
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