Time Warner Internet Tiered Pricing

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Time Warner Cable scraps plan for tiered pricing

roadrunner You may have heard about Time Warner’s recent announcement to begin a tiered pricing trial program in several markets, including Rochester, NY.

Here are some of the details:

To accommodate lighter Internet users and those who need a lower priced option, we are introducing a 1 GB per month tier offering speeds of 768 KB/128 KB for $15 per month. Overage charges will be $2 per GB per month. Our usage data show that about 30% of our customers use less than 1 GB per month.We are increasing the bandwidth tier sizes included in all existing packages in the trial markets to 10, 20, 40 and 60 GB for Road Runner Lite, Basic, Standard and Turbo packages, respectively. Package prices will remain the same. Overage charges will be $1 per GB per month.

We will introduce a 100 GB Road Runner Turbo package for $75 per month (offering speeds of 10 MB/1 MB). Overage charges will be $1 per GB per month.

Overage charges will be capped at $75 per month. That means that for $150 per month customers could have virtually unlimited usage at Turbo speeds.

Once we implement this trial, we will not immediately start billing customers for overage. Rather, we will first provide two months of usage data. Then we will provide a one-month grace period in which overages will be noted on customers’ bills, but they will not be charged. So, customers will have an opportunity to assess their usage and right-size their service packages before usage charges are applied.

Trials will begin in Rochester, N.Y., and Greensboro, N.C., in August. We will apply what we learn from these two markets when we launch trials in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, in October, but we will guarantee at least the same level of usage capacity in these trials.

As we launch DOCSIS 3.0 in the trial markets, we plan to offer a 50/5 MB speed tier for $99 per month.

6 Responses to “Time Warner Internet Tiered Pricing”

Lakebum on April 17th, 2009

If I heard right on WHAM radio this am. Sounded like this was not happening or being postponed.
rupedog on April 17th, 2009

Yeah, I also heard that Road Runner is removing the cap. Earthlink is still cheaper though… although I haven’t tried it myself because I use RR Lite which is the cheapest of them all ($26.95):)
sotto on April 17th, 2009

How does Earthlink work? Is it high speed internet through cable?
rupedog on April 17th, 2009

Yeah they have Cable, DSL, satellite, and dial-up. I’m not very familiar with them; I just recently heard about them with all the chaos with the RR cap.

http://www.earthlink.net/access/
Slammin Sammie on April 17th, 2009

Check this morning’s D&C with above web site to read more on there plans being scraped, but I agree, Its only a delay until they figure a way to sock it to the public. At least its good for now. What I’m dissappointed about is that RR is only available where I live. I’d love to switch to Frontier and get dish with it, but not out here in 315 Land.
Slammin Sammie on April 17th, 2009

Oops, I see I didn’t add the web site to go to, to read the article here it is: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904170336
Sorry!!