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View Full Version : OT: Being charge extra for internet usage OMG!
mtkam770
08-26-2008, 05:30 PM
Well this is all new to me I did not know until today that the so call bill for internet law was just pass that your provider can charge you extra for going over your internet usage like your cell phone minutes.
It was on USA Today news, I have Comcast and they will be starting it next year. So what will that mean for WAHJ cause we are always on the internetsmileys/smiley5.gif. Atleast we can use it as deduction LOL
Just as the economy and gas prices is going up they hit us with this.smileys/smiley7.gif
Here a little of what I found:
NEW YORK (AP) -- You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell
phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home
computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc.
customers -- and, later, others -- may have to, if the company's test
of metered Internet access is successful.
Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, has suggested that
it may cap usage at 250 gigabytes per month. Bend Cable Communications
in Bend, Ore., used to have multitier bandwidth allowances, like the
ones Time Warner Cable will test, but it abandoned them in favor of an
across-the-board 100-gigabyte cap. Bend charges $1.50 per extra
gigabyte consumed in a month.
It was on USA Today news, I have Comcast and they will be starting it next year. So what will that mean for WAHJ cause we are always on the internetsmileys/smiley5.gif. Atleast we can use it as deduction LOL
Just as the economy and gas prices is going up they hit us with this.smileys/smiley7.gif
Here a little of what I found:
NEW YORK (AP) -- You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell
phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home
computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc.
customers -- and, later, others -- may have to, if the company's test
of metered Internet access is successful.
Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, has suggested that
it may cap usage at 250 gigabytes per month. Bend Cable Communications
in Bend, Ore., used to have multitier bandwidth allowances, like the
ones Time Warner Cable will test, but it abandoned them in favor of an
across-the-board 100-gigabyte cap. Bend charges $1.50 per extra
gigabyte consumed in a month.
lowcarblover
08-26-2008, 06:29 PM
Yep, just one more way the corporate giants pick the pockets of the "little people" like us who are struggling to earn a living.
Genetics56
08-26-2008, 07:10 PM
Well this is all new to me I did not know until today that the so call bill for internet law was just pass that your provider can charge you extra for going over your internet usage like your cell phone minutes.
It was on USA Today news, I have Comcast and they will be starting it next year. So what will that mean for WAHJ cause we are always on the internetsmileys/smiley5.gif. Atleast we can use it as deduction LOL
Just as the economy and gas prices is going up they hit us with this.smileys/smiley7.gif
Here a little of what I found:
NEW YORK (AP) -- You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers -- and, later, others -- may have to, if the company's test of metered Internet access is successful.
Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, has suggested that it may cap usage at 250 gigabytes per month. Bend Cable Communications in Bend, Ore., used to have multitier bandwidth allowances, like the ones Time Warner Cable will test, but it abandoned them in favor of an across-the-board 100-gigabyte cap. Bend charges $1.50 per extra gigabyte consumed in a month.
Talk about corporate American taking a cheap shot between the legs for us honest living Americans. If this were to happen and I get charge for extra Internet usage, I wouldn't have any of my part-time jobs. I wouldn't be able to put food on my table since my day job doesn't cover all of my expenses.
It was on USA Today news, I have Comcast and they will be starting it next year. So what will that mean for WAHJ cause we are always on the internetsmileys/smiley5.gif. Atleast we can use it as deduction LOL
Just as the economy and gas prices is going up they hit us with this.smileys/smiley7.gif
Here a little of what I found:
NEW YORK (AP) -- You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers -- and, later, others -- may have to, if the company's test of metered Internet access is successful.
Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, has suggested that it may cap usage at 250 gigabytes per month. Bend Cable Communications in Bend, Ore., used to have multitier bandwidth allowances, like the ones Time Warner Cable will test, but it abandoned them in favor of an across-the-board 100-gigabyte cap. Bend charges $1.50 per extra gigabyte consumed in a month.
Talk about corporate American taking a cheap shot between the legs for us honest living Americans. If this were to happen and I get charge for extra Internet usage, I wouldn't have any of my part-time jobs. I wouldn't be able to put food on my table since my day job doesn't cover all of my expenses.
luvcamerasnic
08-27-2008, 06:23 AM
I wouldn't worry too much. Just talked to my computer-guru dad and most of the WAH stuff that we do wouldn't consume near that amount. It's people who are downloading movies all of the time that would get near that amount.
KekeRayDesigns
08-27-2008, 06:49 AM
My ISP already does this. I'm allowed 150 hours per month for "unlimited" dial-up at the rate of 19.99 and I think they charge .99 for every hour after that. I live in such a rural area that dial-up is still the only thing available to me, so I usually pay about 25-30 for internet per month because of my overages.
