Charter Communications, America’s fourth largest publicly-traded ISP, has announced that it intends to implement bandwidth caps effective February 9.
As with all such congestion management plans, Charter justifies the policy by citing the customer experience. “The update is occurring in order for Charter to continue providing the best possible experience for our Internet customers,” said a Charter spokesperson. “More than 99% of our customers will not be affected by our updated policy, as they consume far less bandwidth than the threshold allows.”
When the caps go live this Monday, users will be treated to tiered caps based on their bandwidth package. Users running Charter’s 20Mbps service will be limited to 100GB, users on the next tier will be capped at 250GB, and users on the new 60Mbps service will continue to have unmetered bandwidth.
With Charter jumping on the management bandwagon, all four (Comcast, Time Warner, Cox Communications) of the US’ largest cable ISPs have now signed on to some form of traffic management.
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