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Japanese ISP Institutes Upload Cap of 30GB… Per Day

While everyone is up in arms about US ISPs such as Comcast instituting bandwidth caps that'll keep you from downloading all the sweet, sweet data that you want, what about telcos in Japan? Well, they're going to start instituting caps as well. Oh, the horror? What is it, 25GB a month? 50GB? No, actually. NTT Communications is going to start instituting an upload cap of 30GB… per day. I'm pretty sure if I was uploading at max speed at all times I couldn't hit 30GB a day. More »

3:17 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Adam Frucci
6,445 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: "I'm pretty sure if I was uploading at max speed at all times I couldn't hit 30GB a day." yeah cuz you don't have the upload speeds they have in Japan :P Wonder if this will do any harm to file more »

bittorrenters beware

All-You-Can-Eat Broadband Is Dead: Time Warner to Charge by the Byte

Reason number 149 I won't move to Texas: Time Warner confirmed it'll be testing a new pricing plan in Beaumont that's based on how much bandwidth you eat up. That's right, hard caps. Totally made-up example, since they haven't released details on the package tiers: Pay $50 a month for 500 gigs, and if you consume more, get slapped with probably obscene overage fees. More »

12:00 PM on Thu Jan 17 2008
By matt buchanan
29,477 views, 128 comments