Time Warner To Begin Bandwidth Caps

Time Warner Cable will begin imposing bandwidth caps on consumers in Beaumont, Texas this week as part of a trial program. Consumers who exceed the bandwidth caps will pay $1 for every additional gigabyte consumed.
As the article intimates, this is clearly a move to discourage new BitTorrent users (undoubtedly the '5% of subscribers using half the bandwidth'.) However, as more and more devices start to connect to the net, and households start using more content-on-demand services, this will begin to affect more than 5% of Time Warner subscribers.
Bandwidth caps started to become a prominent tech issue when Comcast last fall axed the service of some of it's subscribers when they reportedly reached some kind of unpublished limit on bandwidth consumption.

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