No sooner do I write about possibly ditching cable television for good in favor of getting content online, does a cable company come out and make me question if I soon won’t have to quit getting the Internet via that route as well.

Apparently the cable companies are both greedy and stupid. Two traits I really admire in a company. I guess they want none of my money.

I don’t have Time Warner cable, but if I did, this news that they are testing out metered Internet would really piss me off. It’s exactly what it sounds like, you pay your base rate and for that you get to use the Internet up to a certain point, after which you are charged by the gigabyte.

Remember back in the day on AOL when they used to charge when you went over your alloted minutes? Eventually they had to go unlimited because the market demanded it. Part of that was actually the cable companies and their always-on, unlimited cable modems. This pretty much ruined AOL as a service.

Now those same cable companies are going the opposite way. And guess what is going to happen? Something else, be it WiMAX or super-fast 3G or 4G connections are going to come along and blow them out of the water. They don’t realize it yet, but if they actually go ahead with this plan, they are already dead.