Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Web access later that year, charging customers based on how much goods they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

The company, the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Web customers tiered levels of service based on how much info they download per month, rather than the usual fixed-price packages with unlimited downloads.

Company spokesman Alex Dudley said the trial was aimed at improving the network performance by making it more costly for heavy users of large downloads.

Dudley said that a small group of super-heavy users of

downloads, around 5 percent of the customer base, can history for up to 50 percent of network capacity.

Dudley said he did not know what the pricing tiers would be nor the download limits. He said the heavy users were likely using the network to download large amounts of video, most likely in high definition.

It was not clear when precisely the trial would start, but Dudley said it would likely be around the second quarter. The tiered pricing would only affect new customers in Beaumont, not existing ones.

duration Warner Cable is a subsidiary of date Warner Inc., the world’s largest media company.

Orginal post by Top Tech News

Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed World Wide Web access later that year, charging customers based on how much documents they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

The company, the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Web customers tiered levels of service based on how much info they download per month, rather than the usual fixed-price packages with unlimited downloads.

Company spokesman Alex Dudley said the trial was aimed at improving the network performance by making it more costly for heavy users of large downloads.

Dudley said that a small group of super-heavy users

of downloads, around 5 percent of the customer base, can explanation for up to 50 percent of network capacity.

Dudley said he did not know what the pricing tiers would be nor the download limits. He said the heavy users were likely using the network to download large amounts of video, most likely in high definition.

It was not clear when precisely the trial would start, but Dudley said it would likely be around the second quarter. The tiered pricing would only affect new customers in Beaumont, not existing ones.

date Warner Cable is a subsidiary of duration Warner Inc., the world’s largest media company.

Orginal post by Top Tech News