The data package is aimed at heavy users who require an always-on connection wherever they travel.
Times executives have said in the past that the paywall will only affect heavy users.
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Essentially, 12, 000 or so electricity generators and industrial heavy users of energy have had their emissions limited by EU law.
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Heavy users can use "Eco Mode, " a setting which extends battery life by dynamically switching between quad- and dual-core operation.
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Kids are such heavy users of messaging technologies that it is likely today's killer Internet app--e-mail--is about to get pushed aside.
Pharmaceutical companies are heavy users of air freight, but said they had enough stocks to avoid any problems in the short term.
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And mobile-data services are not getting cheaper, at least for heavy users.
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Teens were the vanguard for instant messaging and now tend to be heavy users, keeping multiple windows open and conducting several simultaneous conversations with friends.
Nevertheless, it announced then that it would suspend its data caps and start testing a new system that would allow heavy users to pay for more data.
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Times Co. executives have said that only about 15% of the paper's online readers are "heavy users, " meaning the vast majority probably won't trigger a payment requirement.
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Nigerians are heavy users of fuel, not just for cars but to power generators that many households and businesses use to cope with the country's erratic electricity supply.
In Beijing, water rates for home use start at just one yuan (about 12 cents) per cubic metre, far below cost, with heavy users paying a bit more.
We know from other research that heavy users are highly resistant to price changes, so if high consumers of sugar sweetened drinks are equally resistant, soda taxes will miss their intended targets.
While a recent York University study concluded that both male and female heavy users of Facebook are narcissistic and have low self-esteem, one has to wonder if Facebook also fuels these qualities.
Previous Interphone research on cell phone users' ability to recall how many hours they spend on the phone has found that heavy users generally underestimate that time, and light users overestimate it, Morgan said.
Keep in mind, though, that Samsung's 2, 100mAh battery is no weakling either, and its performance in the video rundown test seems to suggest most heavy users will easily last a full day with nary a struggle.
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How will the billions of dollars of capital investment needed to keep up with that demand be passed on to consumers? iGR CEO Iain Gillott anticipates that metered data plans will become the norm so heavy users should expect to pay higher fees.
With support from the California Endowment, an investment firm and a community-based clinic will raise and invest money to get rid of mold, roaches and otherwise mitigate the asthma triggers in the homes of 200 people who have been identified as heavy users of asthma services.
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Back in March I wrote Why Brand Managers Need To Take An Interest In Pinterest in which I laid out the fact that the person who makes the majority of household decisions, AKA women, are heavy users of Pinterest and they also trust what they see on Pinterest.
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Increasing smartphone penetration helped drive postpaid ARPA, as smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well.
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Since smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well, this should continue to help increase postpaid ARPUs further.
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The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
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Among the possibilities: Bait-and-switch heavy data users off the unlimited plans they signed up for.
The Clearwire system is aimed not at voice but at heavy data users.
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The smartphone portfolio of telecom providers is only growing given the juicy data revenues that heavy smartphone users bring in.
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In response to consumer concerns about caps on heavy data users, Comcast is revising its rules for high-speed Internet subscribers.
PLEASE, PLEASE make sure we take advantage of this heads up and get our heavy data users set up on these unlimited plans before they change.
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Ultimate Speed Internet 120 will have a download limit of 170 GB and an upload limit of 30 GB, well in excess of the current needs of heavy bandwidth users.
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The unlimited carrier's network 4G upgrade has resulted in the introduction of two new Premium Data offerings for heavy data users looking for the ultimate in 4G data speeds and affordability.
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