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Congressman Wants to Ban Download Caps
blog.wired.com - 4/15/2009
Congressman Wants to Ban Download Caps
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Time Warner Cable plans to test its controversial, new scheme to have users pay by the gigabyte in Rochester, New York, but the area's freshman congressman calls usage caps greedy and plans to introduce legislation to stop it. New York...

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Gear Diary:  NY Congressman to introduce ‘Anti Bandwidth Cap’ bill

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NY Congressman to introduce ‘Anti Bandwidth Cap’ bill
Gear Diary — ... Sometimes you actually feel like your vote matters … and within six months of my first vote cast anywhere but Massachusetts I have that feeling. New York representative Eric Massa has said he plans to introduce a bill that would invalidate the plans by broadband providers such as Time Warner, AT&T and Comcast to charge tiered pricing based on usage, according to a blog posting at Wired. ...

Congressman fighting for your right to download
CrunchGear — ... New York representative Eric Massa is currently working on introducing a bill that would increase competition between bandwidth providers, and hopefully break the monopoly that companies like Time Warner Cable have over certain areas. While no specific information is available about the bill (it’s not yet written), we can only hope that the freshman congressman can get some help with fighting this. ...

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