Comments on: Time Warner Cable Announces Monthly Usage Caps for ‘Consumption-Based Billing’

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think they will feel a big backlash from their customers!

People would leave them in droves if this is all they offered.

By: VAMPYRE BLADE

VAMPYRE BLADE — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

All they are going to do is drive away people web surfing and email is fine on dial up or if they want more speed then i guess dsl would gain popularity. They are bitting the hand that pays them it never works out look at riaa and mpaa.

By: cheapbastard

cheapbastard — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I used to be a TWC user until they told me they would start charging me business rates for my internet because my usage was too high. That was 5 years ago. I’ve been a happy DSL user ever since.

By: flyingrhino

flyingrhino — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is the way it is in New Zealand. Here we get 1/5/10 Gb caps per month. Just see how they advertise the “Extreme” plan with 6Gb data for “People downloading and streaming lots of music and video files”

http://www.slingshot.co.nz/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=999&tabid=11&subnav=20

Absurd right ?

By: iamyour41

iamyour41 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This shit needs to get nipped in the bud before it even starts by the consumers and many many companies that make money over the internet. Why the hell would anyone need high speed internet with unlimited cap for legal reasons? Hmm easy. Streaming movies from say Netflix… iTunes… YouTube… Online Gaming… etc etc. Can you imagine what 400kbps at hours on end gaming would cost? That’s absurd. Way to try to make internet regress rather than make leaps forward. Buncha fucking greedy bastards. The consumers own this market and we need to show them hell now we won’t go.

By: Spurge

Spurge — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

They’re all full of it. Don’t let these companies fool you it’s all about trying to slow piracy.

I’ve always wondered why there’s such an importance placed on how much people download. It’s not like it costs anything.

Pay 25c for a phone call and you’re not limited on how much you can say! ?! What’s the difference here?

By: Faethe

Faethe — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well there goes everyone with an apple TV thing that lets you rent movies through broadband. Or people on the new netflix plan. Or anyone signed up on Rhapsody or Napster that gets unlimited downloads for a monthly fee. Screw this. They try this crap and I’ll stay with earthlink or get a network card for my laptop and be done. Snd yeah why would someone need broadband if they weren’t ever going to stream? And everything streams now – every single website you hit usually has some sort of streamed ad content that loads automatically. How are they supposed to separate advertising from other content?

By: colombianino

colombianino — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

glad im not in that mess they are going to be hit back and HARD. all i can say is AT&T/Bellsouth beware don’t do this or you’ll lose all that hard work you have accomplished.

can’t say how maddening this is going to get those big customers and companies revolution XD (lol reminded me of something: THIS IS SPARTA!!!)

By: maxxjulie

maxxjulie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

They say this “trial” will only be for new customers. I wonder what that means for existing customers like me. Will I still need to stay within the 40gb cap or not?

By: Theinfamousone

Theinfamousone — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well what’s gonna happen in the future I think is that cell phone companies will have all the power. These land line broadband internet providersThey are going totally mobile and people are going to be more likely to pair up their broadband internet with their cell phone plan. I think a lot of people wont care about the speed caps. But eventually people are going to go over on accident and have to pay tons of money just like going over minutes on your cell phone and people are going to be pissed. They are going to think that they can pull the wool over people’s eyes but sooner or later they will just be speeding up their own demise. How many people under 30 do you know that have a telephone landline? That’s what I thought I know about 100 and none have a landline. Landlines are going to be only for big businesses eventually I think it will be the same way with broadband landlines in the next 10 years or so. As soon as cell phone providers can make their rates a little bit more competitive Time Warner can go screw themselves for all anyone will care. I already know people that just use Verizon wireless internet and Sprint wireless internet.