Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:07AM from the dump-their-tea-in-the-gulf dept.

jcrousedotcom writes "Time Warner cable apparently has heard that folks aren't too happy with their plan to meter their unlimited connections. From the first paragraph of the article: 'Time Warner Cable's proposed trials of consumption-based billing were originally slated to begin in several markets this summer, where customers would be a part of a tiered pricing scheme. Pricing would have started at 1 GB per month for $15, and go up to 100 GB per month for $75, and include a per-gigabyte overage fee. The public's reaction was less than favorable, and the trials in Texas have been rescheduled.'"

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Re:They can either do it openly or covertly by empiricistrob · 2009-04-15 09:00 · Score: 5, Informative

Is this a serious answer, though? The vast majority of the land area of the US is almost unpopulated. But *MANY* people live in highly populated areas.

For instance:
San Francisco: 6688 people per square km
New York: 10482 people per square km
Chicago: 4816 people per square km

For comparison, Tokyo has a population density of 5847 people per square km.

So, to re-ask the grandparents question: Why are our urban areas so far behind Japan and South Korea's urban areas?