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[ NNSquad ] Time Warner Cable to expand usage-based broadband billing option nationwide
Time Warner Cable to expand usage-based broadband billing option nationwide
http://j.mp/WB4P3t (Fierce Cable)
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) will offer a usage-based billing option
to cable modem customers in every state it offers service except
Hawaii by the end of December, CEO Glenn Britt said Monday. The
nation's second largest cable MSO began testing usage-based pricing on
systems in southern Texas in February. Subscribers that choose the
usage-based option and take an "Essentials" version of its broadband
service can download just 5 GB of data each month. Customers who
exceed 5 GB of data usage are charged $1 per GB that exceeds the
allotment, with the overage fees capped at $25 each month. Britt told
attendees at a UBS conference in New York that Time Warner Cable's
strategy isn't to place usage caps on the broadband product. "I don't
like the idea of caps. That's a negative connotation. What we think is
that we should always offer unlimited service but that we should offer
a choice of a lower price with the consumption to match in for people
who don't need unlimited. So that's quite different than what other
people have talked about," Britt said.
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