Time Warner to begin internet billing based on usage in SA (updated title) (Bowie: mortgage, lenders)

[sinsativ]

In today's paper "another of the cable company's top executives said implementation of the program in San Antonio and Austin would be delayed until October, while Rochester and Greensboro would start this summer"
Me believes that this first swing at bat was just that, a swing and a miss, got everybody to look, now when we all think it's not gonna happen, they come along a few months later, and knock a homerun outa the park. Keep your eyes and ears open. They ain't outa the game.

[Spock's Beard]

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5638/image00052.jpg (broken link)



Looks like Time Warner's profits really took a hit when they announced the "test" last month.

Given this, they would be idiots to insist on continuing with the stupid idea. They no doubt want to collude to get competitrs to do like airlines and have everyone do it all at once so they don't have to worry about losing customers and profits.


Let's hope the politicians are serious about passing legislation to keep TW frm doing it.

http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...mpaign_id=yhoo

Time Warner won't broaden its testing of the plan "until further consultation with our customers and other interested parties, ensuring that community needs are being met," Britt said.

Yep they want to collude with competitors to get them to do the same so TW won't take this kind of hit again.

[Spock's Beard]

Hate to bump after my own post, but the whole "backing away" is a complete LIE, people. They're still gonna do it at the same time they planned all along (late this year/early next year), but now they're gonna "educate" us on how it's for our own good to raise usage prices when bandwidth costs are falling and the taxpayers and not TW are paying for the new lines, as well as collude with rivals with the statement "other interested parties" recently released by them to get more rivals on board.


That way, WHEN they do it as planned, a tacit cartel agreement will be in place, more rivals will do it too, and they hope customers will just give up and accept what they did. They're stalling for time to cut off the public's means of escaping and searching for other choices free of caps, people. Open your eyes. The caps are still happening, but now TW is determined to make sure more people are gonna do it when they do it to prevent this sort of backlash.


If you were planning on switching to someone else, go ahead and do it. The cap is still coming, and maybe enough people going to rivals will deter rivals from signing in on TW's BS.

[perticusrex]

Originally Posted by Spock's Beard

Hate to bump after my own post, but the whole "backing away" is a complete LIE, people. They're still gonna do it at the same time they planned all along (late this year/early next year), but now they're gonna "educate" us on how it's for our own good to raise usage prices when bandwidth costs are falling and the taxpayers and not TW are paying for the new lines, as well as collude with rivals with the statement "other interested parties" recently released by them to get more rivals on board.

I called TW yesterday and wanted to confirm what I just heard on the news about TW backing away from this horrible idea, about this is almost verbatim what they told me. I loved the use of the word "educate" as if we are all morons and cant really see what crapptastical move they are trying to do.

[Paka]

They will "educate" me right over to their competitor...will leave for sure, and I am not even cetain that our use would exceed their ceiling...just refuse to deal with them even if it would NOT cost me extra!

[tekka-maki]

They never run out of antics:

Time Warner and Embarq can't compete with city-owned ISP, trying to outlaw it

Need more municipal ISPs... clearwire's WiMAX, Embarq Fiber, you name it... put Time Warner's shady cable company (at the very least) to rest!

[tekka-maki]

Time Warner Cable Broadband Revenues Jump 11% - $4.4 billion in revenues, $164 million net profit in Q1 - dslreports.com

[scuba steve]

but bandwidth costs are going up!

oh wait, maybe not
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/time-warner-cable-earnings-refute-download-cap-economics-again/

[01Snake]

And here we go again!!

Time Warner to add Internet meters for S.A. (http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/Time_Warner_prepares_Internet_meters_for_SA_custom ers.html - broken link)

[budjb]

I am seriously in awe here about this. Do these people running this company have brains?

I'm tired of the FUD being spread by people tied to the industry. It's a huge attempt at social engineering by companies and research firms consisting of people in the industry. I'm convinced that the only way to keep these types of customer gouging from taking place is government regulation, as much as it kills me to say that. We've got no other options here besides AT&T, and even they are planning on doing tiered usage pricing.

It's a damn shame our city isn't doing something to protect its citizens from these companies.