Time Warner Links Web Prices With Usage
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Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download.
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Time Warner Inc. plans to take a  pretax charge of about $60 million in the current fourth  quarter for severance costs stemming from job cuts at its  America Online unit, the company said in a securities filing on  Friday.
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NEW YORK, September 27  - Time Warner Inc (TWX.NYS) has reached an agreement with Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) that allows Comcast to reduce its interest in Time Warner Cable.
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Time Warner Cable will try selling consumers broadband service based on how much bandwidth they use, a move that could turn the home broadband pricing model in the U.S. on its head.In a trial planned for later this year in Beaumont, Texas, the service provider will offer four tiers of service at different prices. Customers who used more bandwidth would pay more.The details of the tiered pricing plan haven&#39;t yet been set, according to Time Warner spokesman Alex Dudley. The offer will only go out to new customers, he said.Some service providers charge different rates based on the speed of a service, but in the U.S. they typically allow each customer to send and download as many bits as they like in a month. Under that model, some subscribers who exchanged large files through peer-to-peer services reportedly have been cut off. Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable operator, has said it&#160;sometimes slows peer-to-peer traffic&#160;during peak demand periods.In some other countries, Internet users have long endured bandwidth caps. And Web hosting companies typically charge site owners based on how much data they exchange with visitors.Tiered pricing could help settle the ongoing argument over the fairness of certain subscribers and online content providers using up more network capacity than others, according to Ovum analyst Mark Seery. In fact, he thinks the whole industry will go down this path eventually.&quot;It&#39;s difficult to charge, appropriately, different customers if they have such widely divergent uses of bandwidth,&quot; Seery said. And trying to target one type of application, such as illegal peer-to-peer file sharing, raises political issues, he added.&quot;There&#39;s no justification for blocking legitimate uses of peer-to-peer,&quot; Seery said. &quot;The right focus is on who&#39;s using what [bandwidth] and what they should be charged for it.&quot;Many other transport industries, such as shipping, rail and courier services, charge different rates based on how much the customer uses, Seery said. Some have shifted to that system over time. For example, toll bridge operators once charged trucks based on the value of what they wanted to carry over, and U.S. railroads could arbitrarily carry goods from one customer and not from another, according to Seery. Neither model lasted.Time Warner operates in 33 states but is a relative underdog in the U.S. broadband industry, with 7.4 million high-speed data customers. Comcast has 12.9 million.&#160;
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Time Warner Cable Inc , the  second-largest U.S. cable operator, on Wednesday posted a 23  percent rise in fourth-quarter profit from higher numbers of  broadband and digital phone customers.
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NEW YORK - The chief operating officer of Time Warner Inc. said Tuesday that the company was seeing good early results from opening up several key services on AOL for free last month.
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Shares of Time Warner Inc rose 2 percent on Tuesday after a report that the world&#39;s largest media company was near a settlement with regulators that could limit potential
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By Fred O. Williams, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb. 13--The region's biggest cable TV system is under new management, but some things don't change.   Time Warner Cable raised rates for standard service by 5 percent Feb. 1, the same date that predecessor Adelphia used to raise prices.
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Time Warner, the world&#39;s largest media-entertainment company, says it has agreed to pay a total of $US510 million ($668 million) to resolve federal probes into accounting irregularities at its America Online (AOL) units.
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Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. on Monday said they have agreed to allow Comcast to cut its interest in Time Warner Cable Inc. to 17 percent from about 21 percent.
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Time Warner Inc.  on Wednesday  said its AOL unit will no longer charge high-speed Internet  users for e-mail and other Web services in a gambit to attract  more viewers and boost online advertising.
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HBO, the cable network owned by media  conglomerate Time Warner Inc., is considering a new broadband  Internet channel that would be available to customers who also  subscribe to its cable television service, the Financial Times  reported on its Web site.
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Spending on Internet search ads is approaching $1 billon a quarter, representing $4 of every $10 spent on online advertisements, according to a report issued Monday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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There may be limits coming to high-speed Internet from Time Warner Cable, according to details of a memo obtained by Broadband Reports.
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