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Going Medieval: Time-Warner Begins Metered Bandwidth Testing
Posted on June 02, 2008
This Thursday, new cable Internet customers in Beaumont, Texas will no longer have unmetered Internet bandwidth - they re guinea pigs in a new pricing scheme being pushed by Time-Warner that will give users between 5 and 40 gigabytes in total monthly data usage (uploads and downloads combined). Data usage over that amount will be billed at $1 per gigabyte. Competitor Comcast is also considering metered bandwidth.The goal is to limit average data usage, allowing Time-Warner to get more customers into their existing fiber infrastructure. Since there is little or no competition for Internet con...
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