Eric Massa

Will Congress Stop the Cable Guys From Charging by the Byte?

Peter Kafka in Media on April 14, 2009 at 1:36 pm PT

More drum-beating from Eric Massa, the Democratic congressman who has decided to make an enemy/example out of Time Warner Cable, which wants to charge its broadband customers based on their Web usage. The New York rep says he’ll introduce a bill that will prevent Time Warner and other pipe providers from “capping” their broadband offerings.

Cable’s Pay-Per-Byte Plan Finds a Foe in Congress

Peter Kafka in Media on April 8, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

A New York congressman has a message for cable companies that want drop their all-you-can-eat broadband Internet plans: Don’t even think about it. That instruction comes from Rep. Eric Massa, a Democrat who represents the Rochester area, and it’s aimed specifically at Time Warner Cable, which is starting to experiment with broadband “caps” in Massa’s hometown. But any of the big Internet pipe players contemplating charging their users on a per-use basis–and most of them are–can expect to get similar blowback from lawmakers.