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Time Warner Caves to the public

Ahahaha, WIMPS, they didn't have the balls to follow through.

According to Spidey, they're going to go bankrupt though (even though they've made more revenue/signed more customers but the costs to deliever the service has decreased) 😛
 
1 and only 1 reason - the entire industry didn't want their income source to be fully regulated. Just means cable (and telco) rates will keep going up ad infinitum like that always have been. Prepare for $100/mo "unlimited" (throttled) internet service.
 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
1 and only 1 reason - the entire industry didn't want their income source to be fully regulated. Just means cable (and telco) rates will keep going up ad infinitum like that always have been. Prepare for $100/mo "unlimited" (throttled) internet service.
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Well there's that reason and Shumer is an awesome senator who gets things passed. He has a lot of people that owe him a lot of favors and I think Time Warner may have seen that.

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Now I'm waiting for the throttling lawsuit to come out....:beer:
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yea! More expensive internet for all! Yea!
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Yea that must be why their rates keep dropping when competition comes into town.

Only time they go up is when they are the only game in town.
 
Good.

If the tiers were more reasonable I wouldn't have been quite so against it, but the proposed tiers were stupid low.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yea! More expensive internet for all! Yea!
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Yea! More internet for all, guess they are going bankrupt now because they are losing so much money 🙄

Sorry man, I agree with you on many things and even partially on this as well as respect your knowledge of the networking world as we know it, but it is very evident that you are a as out of touch with reality as the people who scream they need 1gbps+ connections 24/7 at $12 a month with credits for outages and lower than their "promised" speeds, you are just the opposite end of the spectrum.

The internet, like it or not is just going to get more and more clogged with traffic. We as a nation need to continue building out.

 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yea! More expensive internet for all! Yea!
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Because ~$60/mo is totally more expensive than $75 or $150. :roll:

Well okay, let me be a little charitable. If you had said "more expensive internet for some," I could even agree with you. Because the grandmas at the bottom end of the tiered pricing model may have in fact benefited from it. But this is a tech site and 75% or more of the people here probably exceed 40 GB a month (if not every month then at least some months), thus making a flat-rate plan more affordable for most people here.
 
My guess is they tossed that out there hoping that Comcast and Cox might play along and follow suit. When all that happened was the expected backlash from their customer base they did a quick backtrack.
 
Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
boo-urns!

We need to stop people from hogging internet bandwidth. :|
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I know, the tubes are getting clogged! Someone sent me an internet last Thursday and I didn't get it until this Tuesday!
 
Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
Good.

If the tiers were more reasonable I wouldn't have been quite so against it, but the proposed tiers were stupid low.
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:thumbsup:

They went wayyyy outta bounds.
 
A win for the consumer! The struggle never ends, though, but for now at least Time Warner customers can rest easy. This may also discourage other providers from trying to implement such ridiculous caps.

edit: Although it sounds like all that's been confirmed is that they don't intend to implement the tiered pricing in Rochester. Nothing has been said about other markets, though, so I guess it's a bit early to start celebrating.
 
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yea! More expensive internet for all! Yea!
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Yea that must be why their rates keep dropping when competition comes into town.

Only time they go up is when they are the only game in town.
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rates are dropping?
Jeez in the other thread(s) everyone was saying rates were going up!
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
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The internet, like it or not is just going to get more and more clogged with traffic. We as a nation need to continue building out.
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eh? There is TONS of excess capacity right now in nearly all aspects of "the Internet" Overall capacity is hardly the issue.
 
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yea! More expensive internet for all! Yea!
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Yea that must be why their rates keep dropping when competition comes into town.

Only time they go up is when they are the only game in town.
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rates are dropping?
Jeez in the other thread(s) everyone was saying rates were going up!
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Like I said in other posts, my bill has gone up steadily the last 6-7 years. About 40 a month total.
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yea! More expensive internet for all! Yea!
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Yea that must be why their rates keep dropping when competition comes into town.

Only time they go up is when they are the only game in town.
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rates are dropping?
Jeez in the other thread(s) everyone was saying rates were going up!
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Like I said in other posts, my bill has gone up steadily the last 6-7 years. About 40 a month total.
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Exactly. And we can expect those trends to continue
 
Ramen.

Still jumping ship for Fios when it's available, or at the very least threatening to do so to lower my outrageous TWC bill.
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yea! More expensive internet for all! Yea!
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Because ~$60/mo is totally more expensive than $75 or $150. :roll:

Well okay, let me be a little charitable. If you had said "more expensive internet for some," I could even agree with you. Because the grandmas at the bottom end of the tiered pricing model may have in fact benefited from it. But this is a tech site and 75% or more of the people here probably exceed 40 GB a month (if not every month then at least some months), thus making a flat-rate plan more affordable for most people here.
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It provides great benefit to most in the short term but will likely hurt everyone in the long. Ten years, wait, make that 15 years (now I am feeling old) ago 40gb/month was a lot of traffic. What would happen with tiered pricing is that the limits would not increase with bandwidth inflation. So today's 40 is tomorrow 400.
 
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