Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica
An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into ‘excessive use’ warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there’s little to complain about on that front.
Internet data caps generated controversy in the US last week as Time Warner Cable expanded its low caps to more cities and one Congressman pledged to introduce a bill limiting the practice. But capped Internet (or, as it’s known in countries like Canada and Australia, ‘Internet’) access is a worldwide issue, even in the UK’s competitive DSL market. One UK website now suggests that 25 percent of Internet users there have receiv”