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To me, as a consumer, this sounds like a giant step...BACKWARDS!
I remember the good old days in the 1990s when AOL charged people by the minute for the only available Internet connection in my town...dialup at a blazing 28.8 mbps. When a competitor moved to town, AOL went to a flat rate.
Now, Time-Warner Cable is launching a trial program to bill customers by usage. They're saying 5% of their customers account for over half their high speed Internet traffic.
Beaumont, Texas, you folks are the lucky city chosen for Time-Warner Cable's new billing scheme experiment! Congrats!
MSNBC
Time Warner tests Internet usage-based billing
Company said it will try new billing with subscribers in Beaumont, Texas
January 17, 2008
NEW YORK - Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday it is planning a trial to bill high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee, the standard industry practice.
The second largest U.S. cable operator said it will test consumption-based billing with subscribers in Beaumont, Texas later this year as a part of a strategy to help reduce congestion of its network by a minority of consumers who pay the same monthly fee as light users.
The company believes the billing system will impact only heavy users, who account for around 5 percent of all customers but typically use more than half of the total network bandwidth, according to a company spokesman.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22707271/
I remember the good old days in the 1990s when AOL charged people by the minute for the only available Internet connection in my town...dialup at a blazing 28.8 mbps. When a competitor moved to town, AOL went to a flat rate.
Now, Time-Warner Cable is launching a trial program to bill customers by usage. They're saying 5% of their customers account for over half their high speed Internet traffic.
Beaumont, Texas, you folks are the lucky city chosen for Time-Warner Cable's new billing scheme experiment! Congrats!
MSNBC
Time Warner tests Internet usage-based billing
Company said it will try new billing with subscribers in Beaumont, Texas
January 17, 2008
NEW YORK - Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday it is planning a trial to bill high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee, the standard industry practice.
The second largest U.S. cable operator said it will test consumption-based billing with subscribers in Beaumont, Texas later this year as a part of a strategy to help reduce congestion of its network by a minority of consumers who pay the same monthly fee as light users.
The company believes the billing system will impact only heavy users, who account for around 5 percent of all customers but typically use more than half of the total network bandwidth, according to a company spokesman.
READ MORE
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22707271/