Heavy downloaders beware, the days of pulling down unlimited movies, music and other content through your cable connection may be numbered. According to Reuters, Time Warner will soon experiment with a new bandwidth-capped method of dispensing Internet access, in which users who exceed their monthly allotments may be hit by fees for every extra gigabyte.
The company will test the new metered Internet access in Beaumont, Texas, to gauge initial customer reaction. While a backlash has been widely predicted in Internet discussions of the plan, infrequent Internet users could actually see savings, depending on how Time Warner structures its fees, so a consumer uproar is far from guaranteed.
