Time Warner testing usage based pricing

Time Warner is planning to test charging customers based on the amount of bandwidth they use later this year. They claim a small amount of people account for 50% of all bandwidth usage. No details on what the bandwidth tiers will be but I’m sure I would be in the upper tiers.

Source:Wired

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