[Revelation 911]

Now while everyone on the left is applauding Schumer for sticking it to TW...I have a couple observations....

what does a us senator have to do with the relationship between a company and its users?

Why is Schumer injecting himself into a situation involving a publicly traded company?

For those that would complain there is no competition, consider this....

Time Warner contributed $43,500 to Schumer in 2006 ... Read More

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/charles_schumer

http://www.greenamericatoday.org/programs/responsibleshopper/company.cfm?id=345

From 1989 to May 2006, Time Warner gave $15.834 million in campaign contributions. In the 2004 election cycle, Time Warner gave a total of $2.912 million; 76 percent of which went to Democratic candidates. The media giant is particularly concerned with the rules governing television ownership and has interests in relaxing government regulation prohibiting cable television stations from owning broadcast stations in the same market.

-- Center for Responsive Politics, 05/29/2006

[Revelation 911]

I personally contend the stage has now been set for an across the board price hike - it benefits TW & Schumer

[KarlInOhio]

Although I prefer unmetered usage to metered usage just from the advantage of not having to deal with keeping track of my usage, I could accept metered usage if:

1. It was easy to keep track of my usage so I don't get a surprise at the end of the month. My cell phone's internet connection is metered, but there is no way for me to see how much I have used. I don't use it very much because I just don't trust them.

2. There must be a way to limit automatic upgrades in case something screws up. If I download too much I would rather be shut off at a certain point instead of getting a $1000 bill at the end of the month.

Although TW talks about people using their internet to pirate CDs and DVDs, I believe that they are really trying to cut off usage of VOIP phones and legal movie downloads from Netflix. They want the incremental bandwidth cost of downloading a Netflix movie to be about the same as the Time Warner pay per view price, thus you'll be driven back to using Time Warner for movies instead of just as an ISP.

[Trod Upon]

Bandwidth is cheap and will only get cheaper over time. Data compression technology marches on.

[steve-b]

What does a us senator have to do with the relationship between a company and its users?

Suppression of fraud (which is what changing the deal after people have already signed up amounts to) is within the proper purview of government. As for Schumer personally getting involved, that's probably just his cameraphilia acting up again.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What does a US senator have to do with the relationship between a company and its users?

In order to garner a coherent response, that question must be framed by one additional parameter. To wit; What year is it?