Sentence examples for broadband caps from inspiring English sources
S. Derek Turner, the research director for the nonpartisan media policy group Free Press, said broadband caps could create a disincentive to view online video.
A T3 connection, once the gold-standard for corporate broadband, caps out at 45MB a second, and even dedicated fibre connections usually max out at 128MB a second.
Usage-based billing is seen by some as a fairer alternative to broadband caps, a term most closely associated with Comcast, which had been enforcing a limit of 250 gigabytes per Internet customer per month.
Many of us are spending for a home theater experience plus cable/satellite and testing the broadband cap with streaming over Apple TV and Netflix.
That's why VOD streams that go directly to the Xbox don't count against Comcast's 250 GB broadband cap, while streams from its iPad app, XfinityTV.com website, or those of NBC.com or other NBC Universal properties do count toward the cap.
Wildman, a professor at Michigan State University, recently wrote an industry-sponsored paper expressing support for broadband data caps, saying they are "are likely to be beneficial" to consumers by making high-speed Internet available to consumers who otherwise would not be willing to pay for the service.
The company, based in Dallas, also posted its first decline ever in wired broadband subscribers, capping a decade of growth.
The criticism was partly related to Comcast's decision to exempt programming streamed via its own Xfinity app on the Xbox from the subscribers' broadband Internet cap, a benefit not afforded to outside streaming apps like Netflix.
Industry critic Robert X. Cringely claims that the only reason video didn't overwhelm U.S. Internet services in 2007 was that broadband ISPs capped bandwidth and closed switches to control traffic, while pretending that they were taking no such measures.
Some broadband packages cap usage at relatively low limits such as five or 10 GB per month.
Why firms still market capped broadband is beyond us.
