{"id":173726,"date":"2010-01-12T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100108\/0309327670.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-12T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:33:00","slug":"as-isps-look-to-charge-per-byte-how-accurate-are-their-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/173726","title":{"rendered":"As ISPs Look To Charge Per Byte… How Accurate Are Their Meters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various ISPs have been pushing for metered broadband for a while now, and we’ve wondered in the past who will monitor<\/a> the broadband meters themselves to make sure they’re accurate? After all, with things like energy meters, they’re carefully regulated and audited to make sure they’re accurate. But no such luck with broadband meters, for the most part. Broadband Reports points out that it looks like individuals will be on their own<\/a> to check on whether or not their ISP is being honest with them concerning how much bandwidth they use.<\/p>\n

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Various ISPs have been pushing for metered broadband for a while now, and we’ve wondered in the past who will monitor the broadband meters themselves to make sure they’re accurate? After all, with things like energy meters, they’re carefully regulated and audited to make sure they’re accurate. But no such luck with broadband meters, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}