Pay for what you use high-speed Internet

You might be surprised when you get your Internet Service bill from Time Warner. Well maybe not exactly just yet, as the company is running a pilot program based on how much data a customer downloads. So if your constantly on Limewire or uploading huge amounts of data, your bill will cost you much higher than if your just a casual user.

The trial run is only in Beaumont, Texas for now, so if you live outside the city your not affected by this. Time Warner is doing this to test network performance and to make it costlier for heavy users to download large amounts of data which can slow down their network. The company says that 5% of Internet users can clog up almost 50 percent of network capacity. It is not known when or if this new billing system will be rolled out nationally. This all depends on how the pilot program works out.

The end of flat rates for broadband? Stay tuned.