Time Warner: The More You Download, the More You'll Pay
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In a departure from the current flat fee, the company will experiment with a new pricing structure that charges customers based on how much data they download.
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Consumer spending on Internet video streams and movie downloads will expand fortyfold to about $4.1 billion by 2011 as technology emerges to connect television sets to the Web, according to a study. Spending will rise from about $112 million last year, according to the Adams Media Research study.
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BitTorrent, a file-sharing program, makes a wealth of legal and illicit content available to those who know where to look, and devours more than a third of the internet's bandwidth.
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Time Warner Inc.&#039;s AOL LLC online unit is considering giving away more of its services, including e-mail, to customers who already have a high-speed Internet connection, a person familiar with the discussions said Thursday.
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As travelers spend billions online, Internet options keep growing.
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The "obvious" has finally come to pass at Time Warner.
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LONDON, September 25  /PRNewswire/ -- It seems that those who seek to download the likes of Edwin Starr, The Supremes, BB King or Little Richard on the Internet are those who are the most likely to be willing to pay for the tracks.
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LONDON - Time Warner, the world&#39;s largest media company, is to pay out $510m (Â£260.9m) to US authorities following two federal investigations into its internet unit AOL.
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Gobble up too much bandwidth, and Comcast is cutting you off.
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A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites.
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Business & money: The regulator must soon decide who will pay to keep the internet up to speed.
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Time Warner Inc. TWX.N on Tuesday   said a strategy to offer most of online unit AOL's services for   free was making faster-than-expected progress in attracting new   Internet users and cutting costs.
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An analyst firm predicts ISPs could start charging websites for faster, prioritised access to its customers.
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The Internet most of us experience is not the World of Ends suggested by the end-to-end system design concepts around which the Net was originally architected and built.  Instead we have something that is faster-than-dialup, and faster-than-it-used-to-be; but is not The Net. Instead it is the part of the Net that's left in a pipe that's optimized for television, for one-way few-to-many "content delivery" and for locking users into client roles, while servers labor somewhere else. I just had FTTH (fiber to the home) installed. And, while it's way cool in some ways, it's also uncool in the way it prevents far more business than it generates for itself. It would be great if the carriers made it easy for businesses to grow on the Net, and then suppoted those businesses with services that helped those businesses thrive and grow. But the carriers would rather serve "content" to mass quantities of "consumers" while chaging prohibitive prices for "business-class" services. Hey, it's a mass media mentality, and they have every right to it. But...
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Comcast may have shot themselves in the foot. Lawyers are already circling in the water, and the company could be looking at a world of pain for its sneaky BitTorrent filtering.
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This is a near perfect solution for Internet users in Germany. With a lot of competition for subscribers, T-Online customers can have a DSL line for â¬3.99 per month.
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A UK internet service provider is offering broadband that is sixteen times faster than average packages.