Frontier slips back on its broadband usage cap

Bandwidth metering is not popular with any broadband consumer as proven by the outcry against the trials conducted by AT&T and Time Warner Cable, but Frontier is okay with imposing bandwidth limits by softening the language of what's deemed excessive use in its terms of service (TOS).

With much of the controversy over Time Warner Cable's metering and cap trials over, Frontier is now maintaining its 5 GB cap on its DSL tiers but it has removed references to 5 GB as being "excessive." How generous of them. Interestingly, when Time Warner launched its metering trials, Frontier ran an ad decrying cable's unfair bandwidth caps to get consumers to sign up for their DSL service. Of course, when the furor over TWC's cap trial ended, Frontier went right back to imposing their bandwidth caps. In one case, the ILEC conducted a metering trial in Minnesota that would impose an up to $250 a month fee on any user that violated the 5 GB cap on its 3-6 Mbps DSL service.