Internet Overcharging Schemes Kill Sky Online Video in New Zealand
StoptheCap.com, July 2, 2009
By Phillip Dampier
Sky Television announced it was throwing in the towel on Sky Online, its broadband video on demand service for New Zealand. It’s not that the service wasn’t popular and keenly sought by broadband customers in the country. But Internet overcharging schemes that placed broadband caps on consumers usage for the service killed the business.
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