Pay Per Gig

PAY PER GIG
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Steven Levy]
If you are an Internet-crazy movie lover in Beaumont, Tex., life may soon take a miserable turn for you. Time Warner Cable, which also sells broadband via its Road Runner service, has chosen your city for a pricing experiment. If you have plans to sign up and watch lots of high-definition flicks using, say, the new iTunes digital rental program announced last month, start saving now, because Time Warner is going to tally up those gigabytes. You know that feeling that mobile phone users get when they exceed their allotted minutes and get a heart-stopping tariff for overage charges? Some Beaumont cinephiles could get the same infarction from their Road Runner bills.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR200801...
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