4 posts and columns on pricing plan

Verizon to Bust a Cap in Your Asymmetric Bandwidth

in News on September 29, 2009 at 12:35 pm PT

Get ready for metered broadband. Speaking at the FTTH Conference and Expo in Houston Tuesday, Verizon Communications CTO Richard Lynch said the broadband industry is headed toward a pricing paradigm shift that will see it embrace the usage-based pricing common to the wireless broadband industry.
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No iPhone at WWDC? Really?

in News on May 13, 2009 at 4:33 pm PT

This morning we learned that Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference does not herald the return of CEO Steve Jobs. Now comes word that it may not herald the announcement of company’s next-generation iPhone, either.
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Time Warner Cable Backs Off Pay-Per-Byte Broadband Billing

in Media on April 16, 2009 at 12:48 pm PT

That was quick. Time Warner Cable is shelving plans to charge its Internet customers based on usage. For now, that is. The cable giant had planned on charging customers in four locations on a “consumption” plan in which they’d pay between $15 to $150 a month based on the amount of data they hoovered via the Web. But noisy opposition to the plan surfaced immediately and has been getting louder over the past few weeks.

iTunes 69-Cent Bargain Bin to Debut April 7

in News on March 26, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

April 7. That’s when the 99-cent-per-song rate that iTunes first set in 2003 will finally end, says the LA Times. On that day–and not April 1 as Apple originally claimed–the company will introduce a new tiered-pricing plan that will see it peddling songs for 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29, according to popularity.
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