Time Warner Testing Bandwidth Limits - 5GB per month limit

Time Warner just kicked off their trial on pay-per-use billing.

The limit is set at 5GB per month, anything above that and the users will have to pay extra on top of their bill!

They plan to offer tiers with monthly limits of 5GB, 10GB, 20GB or 40GB

Judging by other ISPs TimeWarner will probably want something like $1-2 per GB above the limits. Even $0.50 will be a lot higher than what they probably buy the traffic for considering it's on their network.
Hopefully not though

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6523660.html

fios offers 20/20

Do you think the average consumer who surfs the web for porn would sign up for this as opposed to unlimited? If so, do you think that could hurt sites that offer large video files (download or stream)?

they'll probably have to sign up for metered bandwidth
If there's unlimited it will cost a nice chunk of change
and with having only AT&T and Cable ISP in most places
most people won't have choice

allegedly 5% of subscribers are so called power users - who download 50-100GB+ a month. That stat is according to the ISPs themselves so who knows.

It will def. make a lot of people pay attention how much they download though.

WiredMag says TimeWarner is looking at what BellCanada is doing and they charge $7.42USD per extra GB! Which is a joke considering how much bandwidth can be had for in bulk quantities in the US

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/0...-cable-to.html

As Wired says TimeWarner, Comcast etc won't be a dumb pipe. They'll make you pay for those cable TV packages now that internet speeds are growing more and more

I wouldn't bet on this, but we'll probably see the ISPs try to nudge users to use their portals and entertainment sites (Fancast.com etc..) and not count that bandwidth toward the monthly limit