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Internet Usage Metered By Providers

Time Warner Cable is going to start metering subscribers for their internet usage and charging users who go over their allotted gigabytes, reports the AP. The initial test of this new billing system will be tested in Texas starting Thursday.

Time Warner says it will affect very few users, as five percent of subscribers take up half of the cable line capacity. It's an effort to make things more fair for the 95% of subscribers who aren't doing huge uploads and downloads (although those numbers may change as film downloads become more popular with the new services now in the works).

A few other companies are considering metering, so this may be the future of internet access. Does anyone in Europe or from the old days in the U.S. have any thoughts about metering? Is it a step forward in making internet access more fair?

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.



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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.

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