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AT&T Inc. (T) has confirmed that it quietly began an Internet bandwidth metering trial in Reno, Nev., possibly setting the stage for the eventual creation of pay-extra service tiers beyond what consumers pay for monthly web access today.

AT&T is conducting the market trial “to evaluate a usage-based model that could potentially help address today’s trend of explosive bandwidth usage,” according to the carrier. The trial may be extended to one other market by the end of the year.

Beginning Nov. 1, 2008, new AT&T High Speed Internet customers in Reno started receiving a bandwidth usage amount ranging from between 20 gigabytes to 150 gigabytes, depending on their broadband speed tier. Read full story:

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