Time Warner Cable is finally testing out customer response to its broadband usage-based pricing.
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Usage-based pricing with no fixed contracts or contracts with renewable terms as short as 30 days.
The Hartford Financial Services Group late last year began offering a usage-based program called TrueLane in about a half-dozen states.
In addition, the company recently revised its service offerings such that consumers on usage-based pricing plans may tether, using any application, without paying an additional fee.
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"A usage-based tariff will still be an option, and may be revived in the first or second quarter in 2000, " says Antonio Samson, PLDT executive vice president for corporate services.
Writing in Slate, Microsoft's online magazine, Mr Myhrvold explains that the main problem with usage-based charging for electronic information is that it is an artificial distortion of the underlying economics.
ISPs, with about 500, 000 subscribers, has already announced plans to move away from flat fees: in exchange for usage-based fees, it will offer higher quality connections and services aimed at small business.
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We expect the immediate impact of usage-based pricing on ARPU will be mixed and difficult to predict due to the limited roll-out, but over time it will act as an incentive for people to upgrade to Turbo, Extreme and Wideband data services.
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Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
"The biggest message is that you don't have to take big steps to reduce your water usage, " its designer, Berlin-based Timm Kekeritz told CNN.
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Just like cloud-based IT architectures portend reduced PC usage and risk to PC suppliers like Dell, Microsoft and Intel, they create similar risks for private network equipment suppliers like Cisco.
The proposed changes are based on a 12-week public consultation about library usage.
Boomi is SaaS-based, meaning that its customers are billed based on actual usage rather than on periodic licensing fees.
The most important, in the United States and in most other countries, is a positive declaration that gold, and gold-based instruments (such as gold-based bank accounts and so forth) would be permitted for monetary usage, just as we use dollars or, for that matter, foreign currencies such as Canadian dollars or euros.
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For example, a number of companies provide tailored advice for individuals about how to save money on their electricity bills based on their own energy usage data, which is made available through the Administration-catalyzed, industry-led Green Button initiative.
If you are willing to make some changes in the software you use on the device based on if you are using the convertible in laptop or tablet-mode, many usage scenarios will work very well.
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"The operating success of this year is based on sustainable and profitable subscriber growth, longer usage times and more revenues in advertising, e-commerce and services, " the company said in a statement.
Web--based software from Salesforce.com competes with Siebel Systems, and every business that "rents" usage from Salesforce avoids having to buy a server to run Siebel's code.
Web-based software from Salesforce.com competes with Siebel Systems, and every business that "rents" usage from Salesforce avoids having to buy a server to run Siebel's code.
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