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With Neutrality Looming, ISPs Eye Metered Internet

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The Wall Street Journal reports that ISPs are looking at metered internet connections in response to calls for net neutrality.

"This could come down to carriers saying, ‘If you don’t allow us to manage our networks the way we see fit, then we will just have to cap everything,’ " says Phillip Dampier, a consumer advocate focusing on technology issues in Rochester, N.Y. "They’ll make it an either/or thing: give them more control over their network or expect metered broadband."

Dampier helped force the end of Time Warner

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