So Time Warner is finally making their caps official...

**** Time Warner.

 

You have no idea.

Cliffnotes: Tax breaks given to shore up telecom infrastructure to the tune of 200 billion were wasted by these jerkholes. Instead, we are now paying more for lousier service instead of the fiber they promised but never installed.

EDIT: Oops! Fixed link. One is the investor scam (750 billion) the other is the government tax scam (200 billion).

 

I'm happy for some price differentiation. As a technology laggard, I'd rather not subsidize folks who are more aggressive in their consumption.

 

Al Gore won't stand for this!

 

This isn't about consumers using too much, it's about providers not wanting to catch up to the times.

 

It doesn't matter what it is "about." The effect would be lower prices for low-level consumers like me.

 

40 GB, wow that is ridiculous.

 

I wish I knew how much I used :/ It isn't something I've ever needed to know.


Like, how much is streaming a movie on Netflix? Playing WoW for an hour?

 

I thought the govt was intervening with this nonsense.

 

If other cable companies follow suit, which they probably will, how will this affect online gaming activities?

 

So if we already have Time Warner, does this affect us? When they test-marketed it Beaumont, I thought it was just for new customers. If so, I'm switching to AT&T.

 

How? I pay 34.99 for a 3 meg VZW DSL pipe.

 

5 GB cap is ridiculous.

WTF.

 

Folks this is a *Good Thing*.


Remember the very early days of the internet, with the early crapfests of places like AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve?

From the very beginning, those outfits wanted to charge a rate instead of a flat fee per month. All it did was piss people off and encourage them to use their service LESS.

And think about it, back then it was mostly early-adopters, and even they couldn't stand it. Those models vanished when consumers abandoned them for ISPs who charged a flat rate.

Warner just needs another reminder. They will see their customer base erode drastically in these markets, and the plan will once again end up on the trash heap, and maybe they will get it through their heads for another generation or so that this kind of moronic money-grabbing is not going to work. There are simply too many competitors who offer flat rates.

And not only that, but if other outfits want to follow suit, so what? It just creates more demand for the smaller flat-rate sellers, and gives opportunities for more start-ups.

This thing is going to crash and burn. Their 'trial' (Beaumont? really? Beaumont?), if they deemed it a 'success' was fool's gold. Others in the industry wil watch and see how badly it fails. Good for the rest of us.

 

you'll hit your cap in 5 hours.

 

I'm ready for some viable internet and cable competition to TW, ATT, and Crapcast.

 

no FiOS in Houston so eventually we'll be fuked by Comcast too.

 

has to be on new customers, if you already have a contract at a set price they can't breach the contract legally...this is bs, i doubt it will work, too much backlash, public outrage will damage this plan






i hope

 

Super. :'(

(I don't have Time Warner, just worried about the cascade.)