Time Warner Drops Usage-Based Access Fees -- For Now

rookietrucker · Apr 18, 2009

Time Warner Drops Usage-Based Access Fees -- For Now

Time Warner Cable's decision to back off from a usage-based pricing change for high-speed Internet subscribers in four cities demonstrates how politically fraught the governance of Internet access and pricingcan be.

Time Warner's new CEO, Glenn Britt, issued a statement late last week saying the company had shelved the pricing trials in Rochester, N.Y., Austin and San Antonio, Texas, and Gressnboro, N.C. Those trials, which started only two weeks earlier, charged subscribers for the amount of bandwidth they used. Time Warner calls it a "consumption-based" model.

Britt said he had heard the public outcry over the pricing change in reaching the decision to pull back. It was an outcry that got members of Congress involved, and at one point U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., even met with him to describe Rochester's "outrage" over the proposal, according to a statement Schumer issued.

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cplmac2 · Apr 19, 2009

It would be great if the cellular providers dropped their five gig ceiling, a Verizon rep tried dumping some load of BS on me that it was government mandated. That in no way explains how they can and do allow more than five gigs at an astonishing rate of $250/gig above five gigs.

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