Netflix viewing could raise US cable bills
Time Warner Cable and other pay-TV companies, weighing how to profit from surging Internet demand spurred by Netflix and Hulu, are on the verge of instituting new fees on Web-access customers who use the most. At least one major cable operator will institute so-called usage-based billing next year, predicts Craig Moffett, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York. He said Cox Communications, Charter Communications, or Time Warner Cable may be first to charge Web-access customers for the amount of data they consume, not just transmission speed.
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