I'm making this short. The internet is going communist. Here's the best line I've ever seen in these news stories.
"This isn't really an issue that's just going to be about Frontier," said Philip Dampier, a Rochester-based technology writer who is campaigning to get Frontier to back off its plans. "Virtually every broadband provider has been suddenly discovering that there's this so-called `bandwidth crisis' going on in the United States."
So, what's this mean? Well, if I want to download Siren for the PS3 and some map packs, guess what, I have to pay
Mr. Greedy "Let's Kill 80% of the World" Ted Turner and his Time Warner BS company extra to download over my limit. Eff you. I'll steal cable, jerkwads.
-dryvby, my source
That's why Verizon has just about no one using it's Fi-Os down South. They charge way to fucking much.
Anyone can buy them, it's the maintenance that's a bitch.
best thing you can do is boycott it by getting DSL & when you cancel, let them know it is BECAUSE of their $ fleecing broadband plan. The only way they'll stop is if they realize they're losing more money than pay per GB would earn them.
Sucks doesn't it?
If I hear another American whinge about poor internet service I'm going to buy Gabe's iChoke and strangle the lot of you.
Wait. I'm an idiot because I don't want to pay PER GB?
@RJG
That sucks, but we live in a country where we can somewhat take down these crappy organizations that claim this.
Instead I got this.
Sucks to be you.
Actually, you're wrong there. If you go over a certain, unknown amount of bandwidth in a billing month, they will charge you for the excess. Or they did. This may have changed, but there were plenty of reports of this happening, at the start of the Comcast fiasco.