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.

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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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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.

FORBES: Time Warner Cable Tinkers With Pricing, Stock Should Slip To $66