I’m sure you’ve seen it in the news lately, lord knows I have seen it on every technology related website and blog across the internet. Time Warner Cable has announced a monthly bandwidth cap on their Road Runner Cable Internet service. Time Warner is touting that the 40GB plan should be enough for a majority of users and barely anyone should incur overages.

What are they not telling you? That the 40GB plan is $54.90! The comparable in price plan they’re offering to customers who currently subscribe to Road Runner standard for $29.95/mo? A paltry 5GB! That’s right! Time Warner Cable is going to be charging home users almost THIRTY DOLLARS per month for a pathetically small 5GB of data transfer. Don’t think the marketing genius stops there! In addition to these new ridiculous bandwidth caps, they’re going to be charging you $1 per gigabyte over!

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