Following the acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks by Charter in 2016, these operations also merged into the Spectrum brand.

[1][2] Time Warner Cable first launched what would become Road Runner with a 1995 market test in Elmira, New York, under the banner Southern Tier On-Line Community.

[9] Glenn Britt (1949–2014),[10][11] CEO from 2001 until December 2013, justified the new billing plans by claiming that the infrastructures had to be continuously upgraded and users would pay for how much they use.

In February 2015, a Huffington Post article alleges a 97% profit margin on Time Warner Cable's Internet service.

[12] Facebook groups have been created in protest in addition to an online petition and a Web site dedicated to stop the movement.

Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Eric Massa, both of whom represent portions of the Rochester, New York market that would be affected by the changes, announced their opposition to the plan and even went as far as to threaten legislation to ban such a scheme.

[16] As a condition of the merger with TWC, Spectrum agreed to not impose any bandwidth usage caps for seven years post-merger.

After its merger with TWC and Bright House Networks, Charter Spectrum started offering broadband Internet plans across its entire service area.

In December 2017, Charter began its rollout of DOCSIS 3.1,[22] initially in early TWC Maxx markets, which increased speeds and added a gigabit tier.

[26] The second phase, rolling out distributed access architecture (DAA) via Remote PHY, will enable multi-gigabit download speeds, but its completion has been delayed until 2027, due to unavailability of certified hardware.

[27] The third phase, deploying extended spectrum DOCSIS 4.0 (ESD), will provide even higher download speeds, up to 10 Gbps.

In October 2009, the company indicated that they'd be launching their incarnation of the service starting December 1 in Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, Charlotte and Greensboro, and later, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Honolulu, and Maui.

[28] As of late 2011, Time Warner Cable stopped signing up new Road Runner Mobile customers under resold Clearwire WiMAX service.

According to New York State, Charter did not provide new high-speed internet service to as many homes as they had promised during merger discussions with Time Warner Cable.