Baggage and bits: Overage fees have unintended consequences

Baggage and bits: Overage fees have unintended consequences By Rafe Needleman â€" June 16, 2008, 11:34 AM PDT 4 Comments There's a dangerous trend afoot: U.S. wired broadband providers are looking at setting up tiers of service, not based on bandwidth (speed), which many already have, but rather based on amount of data received or transmitted in a given time period. Some Internet service providers are running experiments right now; see Comcast targets bandwidth hogs in test. It's