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U.S. Broadband Providers Looking to Implement Usage-Based Billing?

A Reuters newswire article, via CNN/Money, reports that:

New rates for high-speed Internet access may be in the works as phone companies and telecom equipment makers develop plans to charge customers rates based on how much bandwidth, or Internet capacity, they use, according to a report published Thursday.

Some phone companies, including BellSouth Corp., are mulling "pay-as-you-go broadband" plans that would charge customers more for bandwidth-guzzling activities like streaming video, than for Internet surfing, The Wall Street Journal said.

The move to charge different rates would mark a departure from the monthly flat fee that most plans currently charge their customers, the report said.

posted by Fergie @ 3/02/2006 10:00:00 AM