Americans otuchat of unlimited Internet

Major U.S. ISP and Cable TV Time Warner Cable is considering entering the limitations on the amount of downloaded data, the newspaper writes Ars Technica reports citing the message on the forum Broadband Reports. If you exceed the limit of the subscribers have to pay extra for download additional information.

Until now, the usual American providers offer customers unlimited calling. Traffic restrictions are characteristic mainly for mobile operators, providing wireless internet access.

The site Broadband Reports are sent out the data from the alleged plans of Time Warner Cable. It says that ' the fact of payment of consumption ' (Consumption Based Billing) will be introduced in a test mode in the Texas division and will affect only 5 percent of users who currently use 50 percent of the traffic.

The pilot project will start in the first quarter of 2008 and its results will decide on the deployment of the system of payment for the traffic across the country.

Some Internet service providers, in particular, Comcast, already restrict access to Internet file-sharing networks active users. Comcast has not yet published information on how much data you need to download to face restrictions. Subscribers have complained to the Federal Communications Commission of the U.S. Comcast, asking to pay damages at the rate of 195 thousand dollars per subscriber.

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