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July 3rd
- How much am I downloading: A how-to on measuring the total download/uploa d for a small network connected via a router. The idea is to avoid capping penalties but it is also a good introduction to general network monitoring.
June 30th
- The Case of AT&T?s Incredible Shrinking Broadband Tiers: Updated with AT&T response: Time Warner Cable may have backed off its plans to meter broadband for now, but AT&T still has tiered broadband trials going on in Reno, Nev., and in Beaumont, Texas. And judging from one consumer?s experience with the trial, AT&T has backed off of its planned efforts to offer a 150-GB-per-mon th download tier ? and it doesn?t inform users of the caps until after they?ve ordered service.
- The Cost of Downloading All Those Videos - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: Hard numbers are not that easy to come by, but I?ve found a few. I see no evidence that the pace of spending to expand network capacity has increased at all. Indeed there are a lot of areas where new technology is radically cutting the cost of Internet bandwidth. For those that want to understand more about what drives these costs, here is some of the hard data I?ve found. (As always, Bits readers are a knowledgeable bunch, so if you are in the network business, please share your own experience in the comments.)
- ISP Download Caps Not Dead, But Ought to Be | Epicenter | Wired.com: But, for instance, there has not been too much of a backlash against Comcast?s 250-GB a month cap, which, by comparison, seems quite reasonable ? even to consumer advocacy groups. So Time Warner Cable could give subscribers broadband meters for a few months ? as they promised to in their surrender letter ? and then offer simplified tiers with substantially higher caps. Still, a move to cell phone-like billing doesn?t make much sense when cable companies have long distinguished themselves from DSL providers by offering higher speeds. It will also be a difficult model to offer in any market where providers go up against Verizon?s fiber optic network, FIOS. Jim Blackley, a vice president at the nation?s fifth largest cable company Cablevision had it right when he dismissed tiered plans early this month, saying ?we think [broadband] is a pretty powerful drug and we want people to consume more of it."
- Internet Providers Try to Charge More as Costs Fall - NYTimes.com: The debate over the price of Internet use is far from over. Critics say cable and phone companies are already charging far more than Internet providers in other countries. Some also wonder whether the new price plans are meant to prevent online video sites from cutting into the lucrative revenue from cable TV service. Cable executives say the issue is not competition but cost. People who watch or download a lot of movies and TV shows use hundreds of times more Internet capacity than those who simply read e-mail and browse the Web. It is only fair, they argue, that heavy users should pay more.
- Eshoo Wants Details On AT&T Ad Activity: Rep Anna Eshoo (D-CA) wants to know for sure whether AT&T is engaged in any activity that involves tracking its broadband Internet subscribers� 39; online activities to target advertising and on Friday asked the telecom giant's top executive to clarify. In a letter to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Rep Eshoo asked whether AT&T has used AudienceScienc e.com or any other behavioral advertiser to place ads on the Web, and if so, whether those firms notify consumers when data is collected. She also asked whether consumers are allowed to control what data is collected by advertising vendors and how it is used. Eshoo asked Stephenson when AT&T began advertising to consumers using behavioral targeting and whether it continues to engage in that activity. If AT&T has stopped, she wants to know when.
- Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users: Time Warner Cable's plan to impose tiered data caps on Internet users imploded last week, but that doesn't mean TWC users can download to their heart's content. No, like many other ISPs without explicit data caps, TWC retains an "acceptab le use policy" that lets it curtail any "abuse&qu ot; of its network. Such practices aren't limited to TWC, of course. While ISPs like Comcast have adopted explicit caps, others like AT&T have not, even though they reserve the right to curtail abuse on the network. Given the importance of an Internet connection for everything from telecommuting to entertainment to phone service to e-mail to keeping up on politics, this is one of those areas where ambiguity should give way to clarity. People simply need to know what's allowed and what's not. ISPs have sometimes tried to solve the problem by calling people first and asking them to rein it in, an approach far preferable to simply shutting off someone's Internet access after they hit some unpublished threshold.
- Nielsen Data Offers Real Reason ISPs Are Metering: A report out today from Nielsen shows why Internet Service Providers and telecommunicat ions equipment vendors are increasingly demonizing video: it consumes a lot of bandwidth, and could compete with an ISP's existing video businesses. But the worst part is that it's rapidly becoming more popular to the average consumer.
- Bogus Consumer Group To 'Educate' You On Metered Billing - The quest to 'correct' your flawed perception begins... - dslreports.com: Except the American Consumer Institute isn't actually a consumer group. It's an amalgamation of think tank reps pushing for corporate deregulation under the guise of consumer advocacy. A quick WhoIS notes that the ACI website is registered to Stephen Pociask, a telecom consultant and former chief economist for Bell Atlantic, who via groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, works as a public relations apparatus for paying corporate clients. In reality, you'd be hard pressed to find a genuine consumer advocacy group that thinks Time Warner Cable's combination of low caps and high overages is a good idea. As such, groups like ACI are used by carriers to fabricate the appearance of a broad level of public support for positions that are usually not in the consumer' s best interest. In recent years, ACI has been used to fight against the idea of net neutrality "on behalf of consumers.&quo t;
- Rebond du CTR et baisse du CPM | WebStrat: Rebond du CTR et baisse du CPM. bannières grands formats, flashs transparents, publicités vidéos, capping, chronotargetin g, ciblage comportemental e ont le vent en poupe.
June 26th
- Delivery capping | OpenX: Delivery capping
June 6th
June 2nd
- BBC accuses BT of capping broadband download speeds: From Seek Broadband (NR)
May 22nd
- ISPs' costs, revenues don't support data cap argument - Ars Technica: It turns out that just about everyone is making huge margins in Internet access, revenue is surging even as costs drop, and companies like Time Warner Cable have actually reduced (significantly ) their capital outlays on infrastructure . Even those cable companies that are in the midst of their DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades are posting significant profits. Here are the highlights.
May 21st
- Cable: let us experiment with metered Internet - Ars Technica: This future, robust, consumer-frien dly network will take plenty of cash to build, and McSlarrow says that observers simply can't look at current costs in order to criticize the experiments. But in our conversation, it's never quite clear why everything in the future is about to get so much more expensive, when all the current cost numbers are trending the other way even as traffic surges and DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades are cheap. In any event, cable is certainly well-placed to deliver the Internet. A cable company with reasonably upgraded 750MHz plant can deliver about 5Gbps across all channels (nearly 40Mbps per channel). But how to charge for it? McSlarrow says that we need to trust the market's wisdom. (And yes, before you ask, he does argue that cable companies face real competition.)
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