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BEAUMONT, Texas — You pay extra for using up cellphone minutes, but are you willing to pay for going over your Internet allowance?
On Thursday, new Time Warner internet subscribers in Beaumont will have monthly allowances for data they upload and download. Going over costs $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner executive said. Metered billing is an attempt to deal fairly with Internet usage, which is very uneven among subscribers, said Kevin Leddy, the company’s executive vice president of advanced technology. Tiers will range from $29.95 a month for relatively slow service at 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for fast downloads at 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap.
