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Time Warner to charge extra $1 per GB

Posted on 05.06.2008 at 18:22 in Tech News by Martin

An announcement from Time Warner Cable has stated that they are planning to charge consumers $1 for each gigabyte of content over their allotment. This testing on metered Internet access will start in Beaumont, Texas. Time Warner Cable is a cable operator in the U.S. dealing with the development and launches of innovative video, data and voice services. The company also delivers advanced products and services such as video-on-demand, high-definition television, digital video recorders, enhanced TV features, high-speed data, and Digital Phone. The move has immediately drawn criticisms as it is seen as an abuse of regional monopoly. However, Time Warner Cable has maintained that this type of charging would actually help a majority of users since this would discourage the problem of 5 percent of customers using half of the capacity on local cable lines.

In an interview to AP Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable’s executive vice president of advanced technology, said, “We think it’s the fairest way to finance the needed investment in the infrastructure.” Reuters meanwhile reported that Time Warner Cable has new designs to provide multiple levels of service that would start at $29.95 per month for speeds of 768 Kbps, with a limit on downloads of 5 GB. This limit would amount to more than 340,000 e-mails, 170 hours of online games or downloading more than 1,300 songs. At the high end, customers could pay $54.90 a month for download speeds of 15 Mbps and a limit of 40 GB, which amounts to 124 hours of standard-definition videos or downloading over 11,000 songs.

Source: TMCnet

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  1. Shadowsfury
    June 6th, 2008 | 07:51

    wow, only $1 per gig? i would actually PAY for that. its still cheaper than the “high end” plan im on right now here in australia (1500/256 with 60gb quota, $70 per month)

    i get throttled when i hit my cap, but my ISP charges $150/gb on their new plans.

    $1gb is an absolute bargain.

  2. Prank
    June 6th, 2008 | 07:59

    In belgium we have a 20Mb connection for 55€ (like 90$ I guess?) and limit of 35gb and have to pay 1€ per extra gb, while in neighbouring countries they have limitless, faster and cheaper connections! Damn shame but good way of stopping useless or exessive downloading…

  3. Peon
    June 6th, 2008 | 08:07

    @101
    And I thought my country’s broadband services are bad. I live in a third-world nation–same price for the same D/U speed as yours w/o the cap.

  4. Hugh Jardon
    June 6th, 2008 | 09:23

    I thought that TW(ats) were only really used by n0obsters, so this shouldn’t affect anyone here.

  5. keiron
    June 6th, 2008 | 09:48

    lol – Telstra in Australia charge 15c per Mb (That’s $150 per Gb) for over usage on some of their accounts – and they have some accounts with 300Mb (Yes – MEGAbytes) downbload limits.

    Imagine that – $1500 to download a 1080p movie!!

  6. Viper-7
    June 6th, 2008 | 10:26

    @19 – Gaxx
    “In b4 Australians saying incorrect information about Telstra/Bigpond” ??

    Don’t know what the figures you quoted were, but they weren’t even close to Telstra’s current plans..

    For ADSL2+ we pay $99.95 for 25gb, or $149.95 for 60gb, with 15c per MB excess charges.

    This thread has been great for a laugh, I’ve had Americans for as long as I can remember waving their 10+ mbit connections with unlimited data in my face for aages, back when we were still on 56k modems with 300mb limits :<

    Great to see the yanks getting a taste of it :P

    More seriously tho.. That sucks :< I’d be leaving them ASAP if I had an option, even if I was under their old plan still.. As we’ve learned here these kinds of policies give you a very clear idea of whats motivating the provider. Money.

  7. mickey d
    June 6th, 2008 | 11:15

    @44 Chris

    100mb/sec both ways, 70$ in sweden

    Who’s your ptovider? I have comhem and can only get 24Mbits

  8. xpsp1a
    June 6th, 2008 | 12:29

    4/768 flat + phone flat

    22EUR in Croatia

    ISP Amis

  9. robin
    June 6th, 2008 | 12:31

    not nearly as worse as in belgium where everybody has caps
    i have to do it with a lousy 12 gig a month..
    i usually spend it in 2 days lol

  10. look mate
    June 6th, 2008 | 13:25

    Dig a hole – in Australia we pay $150 per GB extra with the biggest ISP here [monopolistic market]. The cheapest excess rate is $4 per GB or shaped to dialup with other ISPs.

    Don’t compain, you’ve had it golden rosy since the internet came out – it’s about time you saw the raw end of the deal [what it's like for better areas of the world [the further from the US the better]]

  11. cmsr
    June 6th, 2008 | 14:02

    It has been like this forever in Belgium. Kinda sad to see it spreading to the rest of the world.

    But yeah I pay like 120 euros a month atm, for 30 GB base download and then 60 euros more for the usual 60GB i go over the limit each month here.

  12. common sense
    June 6th, 2008 | 15:01

    ★★★RLSLogKing★★★ has obviously never been to germany – the public transport system is amazing. busses, trams, trains and an underground all working (almost) perfectly. a car certainly isn’t needed in a well developed country.
    _________________________
    BS!!! Look at England, they are more developed then you and they are now charging you to enter London in a car or Bus!
    And Berlin is starting to look into doing the same thing and require ALL Germany’s major cities to follow suit. At least here in the US we can drive downtown and NOT have to pay some stupid idiotic sh%$$y tax just because we want to visit the courthouse or a doctor that may happen to have offices inside the new tax area.

    Oh and if you are such a well developed country…then why do you need the autoban? Your country is such a dinky one that I can travel from one border to another in 90 minutes! Two hours at the most! Try that in Texas or Alaska or California or New York. ANY one of these states is two to three times LARGER then your entire country.

    You may now remove your foot from your mouth.

  13. common sense
    June 6th, 2008 | 15:08

    Jeeze, use google much? All you have to do is do a google search and you come up with over 2.5 million pages and all of them are clearly saying that this only effects NEW customers, NOT existing ones.. Go here and read and stop getting your knickers in a twist

    http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3722516

    Quote: “The trial pricing model will only affect new subscribers, not existing ones.” unquote.

    GAWD, you children make a big to-do about the stupidest things.

  14. Paulo Falcao
    June 6th, 2008 | 16:26

    My Plan

    Max Upload 1.11 Mbytes (real speed test)
    Max Download 3.75 Mbytes (real speed test)

    Connection type – Optical Fiber

    ISP – TVTEL

    Country – Portugal, Lisbon

    No download limit

    Price 30 euros

  15. leecher
    June 6th, 2008 | 16:56

    oh…

    i got unmetered 16mb/1mb connection for 35 euros
    plus 1 server 100/100 mb unmetered for 36 euros

    My total traffic per month is about 10TB :D

  16. :)
    June 6th, 2008 | 20:02

    100/100 unlimited,
    ~37€
    ~$59

  17. Bob of Jamaica
    June 7th, 2008 | 14:08

    Hehe,
    20Mbps / 5mbps unlimited download USD 31.30,
    add USD15 for digital TV with it.

    Yeeha, thank god I moved out of Belgium where it is
    USD 84 for 3mbps / 756 kbps, capped at 22GB p/m,
    still, its no Warner Cable :D

  18. VStar
    June 7th, 2008 | 18:00

    Rogers telecommunication from Canada Sucks! Same with bell Canada Start acting just like Rogers. Limiting your customers to anything only ends badly.
    With all these HD stuff on the net we all will be pay for going over the limit, if every ISP starts doing this. Ok, a 5 min trailer in HD is well of 200 Mb and I watch well over 2.5-3hr/day. For any ISP’s to do this to their customers is a downright thief, and should be put under federal review and charge. Then again the federal Gov never sides with the people/ losing side.
    Things like this just make you won’t to do something, but you get lazy and start playing Assassin’s Creed, SC: Forged Alliance or The Witcher.
    When you do stop and look at what the ISP’s or doing, it’s nothing more than a losing tactics to combat the torrent network. Example, game sizes or way up in the 7 GB and in the torrent world that translate into 17.5GB for some people that’s it there capped out, if you’re a seeder like me.
    In other words F**K the ISP and their associates.

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