Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into ‘excessive use’ warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there’s little to complain about on that front. Internet data caps generated controversy in […]
Go ahead and read the article… Educate yourself… But I only have one thing to say… We are mad, and were not going to take this anymore, Time Warner! Time Warner faces backlash on broadband caps: “Consumers and lawmakers have expressed anger and concern over Time Warner Cable’s plans to expand trials of service that […]
Time Warner Cable, stung by public reaction to the Internet data caps it is now trialing in several markets, has issued yet another public statement. Turns out, the problem here doesn’t rest with the caps but with the ‘press reports’ that ‘were premature and did not tell the full story.’ All of which perfectly explains […]
It’s nice that Time Warner is offering a lesser priced Internet service, but isn’t that what RoadRunner Lite already does? And 1 Gb total download for this lesser level… I’m sorry, but it should be at least 2 Gb… “Our usage data show that about 30% of our customers use less than 1 GB per […]
Bowing to Pressure, Time Warner Alters Broadband Caps | Epicenter from Wired.com: “To accommodate lighter Internet users and those who need a lower priced option, we are introducing a 1 GB per month tier offering speeds of 768 KB/128 KB for $15 per month. Overage charges will be $2 per GB per month. Our usage […]
Hack the Planet:: “Wired: Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics,” In short, Time Warner Cable is not showing a loss, so how can they be charging too little for Internet services?
Time Warner Cable: Please complain about our usage caps! – Ars Technica: “Time Warner Cable, fresh from announcing plans to roll out its 5GB-100GB monthly data caps in more test cities, got in touch with Ars today to tell us that it really, really wants to hear from customers, but could the angry epistles please […]
The price-gouging premiums of Time Warner Cable’s data caps: Time Warner Cable, stung by online criticism of its paltry traffic caps (in tests, these have ranged form 5GB/month to 40GB/month) and ludicrous pricing schemes, has taken to the ‘Net to defend its sullied honor. But it’s hard to defend a scheme with fees so high […]