Time Warner to test metered Web use
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Time Warner cable said it will charge users based on how much data they transfer in an effort to control peer-to-peer traffic on their network, but the new pricing model that could scare off customers.
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Amazon.com Inc.  and TiVo Inc.   will begin testing on Wednesday a service that lets  users watch videos rented or bought over the Internet directly  on televisions, as part of a trend to link personal computers  and TVs.
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Time Warner Inc.'s  AOL on  Wednesday said it will give away e-mail, software and other Web  services for free to high-speed Internet users in a bid to  boost online advertising sales.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Friday it would decide what regulations should apply to  high-speed broadband Internet service offered by cable  television companies like Time Warner Inc. TWX.N
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The US Supreme Court will decide whether cable operators that provide high-speed Internet connections, like Time Warner Inc., should be required to open their networks to other Internet service providers.
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Electric companies may soon join the fray of providing Internet services after regulators cleared the way for utility companies to offer broadband services through electrical outlets, according to a report published Friday.
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Federal regulators said they will try again to test prototypes on Jan. 24 for transmitting high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves.
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An Associated Press reporter ran a test of two computers connected to the Internet with Comcast cable modems in Philadelphia and San Francisco, in order to see if reports of the cable provider blocking file sharing programs were true.
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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 is expected to announce a settlement with the Justice Department in its investigation of advertising deals between America Online and smaller Internet companies that may
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Time Warner Cable is looking to revolutionize home broadband pricing in the U.S. by selling consumers service based on bandwidth usage.
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The "obvious" has finally come to pass at Time Warner.
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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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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, 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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; STAFF WRITER. Time Warner is testing the addition of cellular service to its offerings, the company confirmed yesterday. Offering cable television, high-speed Internet access and landline
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Time Warner's new media-sharing site hopes to take on News Corp.'s Photobucket.