usage-based pricing

So What Is a Gigabyte for Mobile Users, Anyway?

Stevie Converse — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:03:21 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Kevin C. Tofel
Verizon’s move this week to follow rival AT&T by eliminating unlimited data plans may not affect most smartphone users today, but could impact them in the future as handsets are used for more purposes. Deciding which data plan will be enough for a month of smartphone use, without choosing a higher priced plan that provides more bandwidth than is needed represents a growing challenge.

Free Press Troubled by AT&T Usage-Based Pricing Plan

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:56:57 -0400

Full article: Broadcasting & Cable
John Eggerton
Free Press called on Congress to investigate what it called "Internet overcharging schemes" to make sure they were not anticompetitive. The group was responding to AT&T's announcement that it will charge DSL customers who use over 150 GB per month.

200GB to 25GB: Canada Gets First, Bitter Dose of Metered Internet

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:28:29 -0500

Full article: Ars Technica
Matthew Lasar
Metered Internet usage is coming to Canada, and it's going to cost Internet users. While an advance guard of Canadians are expressing creative outrage at the prospect of having to pay inflated prices for Internet use charged by the gigabyte, the consequences probably haven't set in for most consumers. Now, however, independent Canadian ISPs are publishing their revised data plans, and they aren't pretty.

Republican FCC Commissioners Love Metered Broadband

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:44:19 -0500

Full article: Broadband Reports
Karl Bode
Speaking almost in lock sync with the nation's largest wireless carriers, the FCC's Republican commissioners, Robert McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker, pushed hard for usage-based wireless pricing. McDowell insisted that "pricing freedom is essential," and that flat-rate pricing "could lead to gridlock."

Usage-Based Pricing Gets FCC Support

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:01:42 -0500

Full article: The Hill
Kim Hart
Usage-based pricing models for wireless services may be a way to ease some congestion on cellphone networks, Republican FCC Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker said.

Free Press Calls for Broader Inquiry into Internet Pricing Schemes

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:36 -0400

Full article: Free Press
Free Press has called for an investigation into controversial pricing schemes from Internet service providers like Time Warner Cable, AT&T and wireless carriers in a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google and Us

Stevie Converse — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:45:02 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Allan Leinwand
Usage-based pricing, as it is currently envisioned by the service providers, will not only change consumer behavior, but will work against some of their larger customers.