Comments on: Why Artificial Caps on Broadband Will Fail.

By: belle6737

belle6737 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:31:32 +0000

In England a company named NTL also tried consumption based billing. There was such outrage, customers were canceling
their service with NTL. Within ONE month NTL reversed their new billing policy. If EVERY TW customer effected by this new
billing scheme cancels their service, then it will hit TW where it truely hurts, their wallets. But it will take everyone biting the bullet and canceling service for it to be effective. Also, a supervisor named Iris Andrews is someone we can all call and complain too about this outrageous change in terms. We spoke to her last night for 30 minutes. Just call 336-584-1383 and get through to a representative, tell them you need to speek to Iris Andrews, and you should be connected shortly. If we dont stand together in this then TW will keep looking for new and inventative ways to charge us for services that we already pay out the wa-zoo for!
UNITED WE STAND!!!!!

By: John Rothko

John Rothko — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:29:46 +0000

In Western Europe we do have caps on our monthly bandwidth usage and it is accepted as a normal practice.
There are not that many people anymore that have dial-up over here, except like you said, the ones that only check their mails, but they are a small minority.
However, America and Canada are different in many ways, so you might escape capping for a while longer.

I will keep my thumbs up for you

By: Rex Williams

Rex Williams — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:17:11 +0000

I’m not 100% sure on this, but from what I’ve seen, DSL is widely available in Beaumont. Some people have self-reported choosing a DSL option precisely because of Time Warner’s tiered pricing plan. Also, there’s a lot of clamoring for AT&T to start offering U-verse in the area.

It will be interesting to watch everything unfold =)

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:46:47 +0000

Yay capitalism! I suppose that Time Warner is the only provider available in Beaumont?

By: Rex Williams

Rex Williams — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:58:12 +0000

Interesting line of thought… I think most people really like the idea of their internet activity remaining relatively unbounded, and would mistrust the transition to a pay-per-megabyte-used model. I recognize how someone could assume that since people are used to paying for each gallon of gasoline they burn driving somewhere, people should be happy to bring their wallet out for each byte they download.

However, we can’t forget that people HATE having to fill up the tank, and as the price to drive somewhere goes up, the attractiveness also climbs for an unlimited internet to which one can escape. If they don’t like the limited use option that someone like Time Warner offers, rather than choosing to go without broadband altogether, I think we’ll just see people switch to a hungrier provider that’s willing to offer a pricing model that people prefer.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:13:02 +0000

I see articles like this more and more these days. Perhaps the proponents of Net Neutrality are right? I think that if companies starting limiting net usage and in turn begin offering it out on tiered platters, most people will be fine with doing without the net completely.

Are they trying to kill it?