FRONTIER ISN'T ENFORCING CAPS QUIETLY IMPOSED ON WEB USERS

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Frontier Communications isn't cutting off users exceeding its new 5 GB monthly limit on Web use, a spokeswoman said. Its aim now is only to "give our customers visibility into their usage patterns," she said. Frontier will send residential broadband subscribers a letter in September "as part of the education process," she said. Late last month, the telco changed its Web page on "acceptable use" by residential customers to allow it to "suspend, terminate or apply additional charges" to accounts exceeding the total for uploads and downloads during a 30-day billing period. "The Company has made no decision about potential charges," it said. Frontier Chairman Maggie Wilderotter told the recent Progress & Freedom Foundation Aspen conference that metered broadband is inevitable for ISPs but didn't mention Frontier's policy change. Representatives of OPASTCO and the Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance, both of which Frontier belongs to, told us they knew of no other members imposing a cap.