Time Warner Implements "One Movie Per Month Plan"

Time Warner Cable has just rolled out a new plan and hopes to create a 5 GB per month bandwidth cap -- one user reports on their own 20 GB cap. For those keeping track, this is less bandwidth than one HD movie -- I'm calling it the "One Movie Per Month Plan." And that's before you add in such inconsequentials as e-mail, web access, VoIP, and the rest of the things many of us use every day.

Fundamentally, Time Warner, Cox, and the rest of the cable companies have built a stunningly faulty infrastructure -- one that is entirely incapable of keeping up with consumer demand. Ordinarily, they would quickly end up in the trash bin of failure reserved for remarkably bad business models. So what keeps them afloat? Well, as Chris Walters points out in his article, Time Warner is rolling this out in areas where they have a de facto monopoly. Yes, it's predatory pricing at its worst -- and with the FTC still asleep at the wheel, we can expect this sort of corporate malfeasance to continue.