Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use? If they consider charging us for overtime I will drop them like hot coals. It’s one thing to have to struggle with the prices every month, Internet, TV at close to a hundred bucks a month is ludicrous. I hate monopolies, we should have cable choice in every community, there should be at least two to choose from. What choices do we have? Cable, dial up, FIOS and DSL….. What a frikin crime.
I may not have a problem with this if they gave me a monthly credit for the 100’s of tv stations I never watch.
Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use
NEW YORK (AP) — You’re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers — and, later, others — may have to, if the company’s test of metered Internet access is successful.
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, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.
Time Warner Cable had said in January that it was planning to conduct the trial in Beaumont, but did not give any details. On Monday, Leddy said its tiers will range from $29.95 a month for relatively slow service at 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for fast downloads at 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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