Time Warner Cable Inc said on Thursday it would shelve plans to test a system that bills customers for the amount of broadband bandwidth they use instead of at a flat fee to access the Internet from home after an uproar from consumer groups and politicians.

“It is clear from the public response over the last two weeks that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about our plans,” Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Glenn Britt said in a statement.

The company said it would alter plans to test consumption-based billing while continuing customer education about it. Time Warner Cable has been testing the billing system in Beaumont, Texas.

Google Inc’s YouTube video-sharing site has signed content deals with several Hollywood studios, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

The two sources said on condition of anonymity that the studio deal involved Sony Corp and other parties.

The move underscores Google’s efforts to ramp up content on YouTube to attract more advertising dollars.

On a blog post, YouTube said only that it was announcing a new destination for TV shows and an improved page for movies, without elaborating.