Time Warner Cable launched a trial program in Texas on Thursday which imposes monthly internet consumption caps on new subscribers. The caps differ depending on the tier of service paid by the consumer with consumers paying for consumption in excess of established caps similar to how cellular minutes are tallied and billed.

Here in Trinidad we are already ahead of this curve with Flow having subscribed to this model with a cap that is not placed on the amount of bandwidth used but moreso the speed of the bandwidth. In effect this creates the same situation as you are limited in your consumption if you speed is hindered.

The argument however is that with the growing number of services online that are bandwidth intensive and digital distribution becoming more prevalent how does the capping play a role in net neutrality and more importantly at the moment the education and development of our analog economy.