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ISPs Should Stay With Flat-Rate Pricing

Analyst argues metered service will halt innovation and stunt growth

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 5, 2008 5:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – Cable companies are wooing Wall Street by saying they’ll offset expensive implementation of a new, high-speed software protocol by metering broadband Internet access. Bad move, Om Malik writes on GigaOm. Flat-rate high-speed access has enabled recent revolutionary innovation in the telecom business, which led... Read full story »

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