Time Warner halts metered billing tests

This story hasn't gotten the type of news coverage that it should have given the scope of change that would be brought out with it. I know I was unaware of what Time Warner was doing until Monday when I was scourging through emails that citizens sent into the office trying to support legislation that would protect them against a billable rate increase from the cable company on their use of Internet. Personally, I can understand from a business perspective the need to at least break even on the Internet bandwith issue because the goal of the company is to show off profits and growth to its many shareholders. With the large amounts of videos and downloads that are available, most people do not understand how expensive it actually is to handle those on the network. Fortunately for me, Time Warner does not hold much networking power in Arizona where I live so it wouldn't have directly affected me, but it would only have been a matter of time before other companies like Qwest, Cox, and Comcast did the same thing and started charging more expensive Internet rates. I am glad to see that the public's outrage over the situation was handled smoothly and the company listened to what they had to say rather than implement something that they may have to change in the future like US Airways did when it started charging for soft drinks and water on its planes.