Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use

Journal written by Presto Vivace (882157) and posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 03, @08:05AM
from the been-there-done-that-gave-it-up dept.
As rumored a couple of months back, Time Warner is starting a trial of metered Internet access. "On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte... [T]iers will range from $29.95 a month for... 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for... 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Those prices cover the Internet portion of subscription bundles that include video or phone services. Both downloads and uploads will count toward the monthly cap."

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