Skip to main content

Charter Cracks Down On Internet ‘Bandwidth Hogs’

Quoted: “I think that?s pretty standard,” Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications expert, said about the new approach. “In cities where they don?t meter water, for example, you can use as much water as your family needs — and New York City is a classic example. But if you start a brewery in your apartment, and you start carting our millions of gallons of beer that you?ve made from free city water, the city?s going come back and say, ?No, that?s a commercial operation.?”