Welcome to Civitium's Blog: The Local Loop. http://civitium.com/LOCALLOOPBLOG/tabid/60/BlogId/1/Default.aspx en-US greg@civitium.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:58:46 GMT Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:58:46 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 <p><img height="166" width="201" border="2" align="left" alt="" src="/Portals/0/bandwidthcaps.jpg" />Comcast set off a firestorm by announcing a 250 GB bandwidth cap for its residential broadband customers. Om Malik over at Gigaom did a nice job of outlining how such caps would stifle innovation, which I tend to agree with. But, private providers are not bound by any law or obligation to promote innovation, at least not that I'm aware of. In fact, I tend to view placing bandwidth caps on a service - at least in situations where these caps are disclosed to the consumer, as well within any provider's right - even if I don't like it.</p> <p>The bigger problem, in my view, is how bandwidth caps can have the effect of favoring these providers' own content and services, while disadvantaging similar content and services from other providers.</p> http://civitium.com/LOCALLOOPBLOG/tabid/60/EntryID/16/Default.aspx http://civitium.com/LOCALLOOPBLOG/tabid/60/EntryID/16/Default.aspx#Comments http://civitium.com/Default.aspx?tabid=60&EntryID=16 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:57:00 GMT 0 http://civitium.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=16