Posted on 04/06/2009 6:40:15 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
Sue Polinsky had the first cable modem in Greensboro.
Back in the late 1990s, when the Web designer found she needed more Internet speed than a telephone or DSL line could provide, she was happy to pay a premium. She’s been a Time Warner Cable customer ever since — even upgrading to the business-class service to run her company, Tech Triad, from home.
But when she got wind of Time Warner’s plan to begin monitoring and capping how much data its Greensboro customers use, she said it could be summed up in one word.
“Greed,” Polinsky said. “That’s all it is.”
Time Warner has chosen the Triad area as one of four test markets for its new tiered pricing system. In the fall, new customers and those at the end of their contracts will get new plans that treat their Internet use much like cell-phone use. The company will begin charging users for all the data transmitted over their cable lines — everything from Web pages to photos, songs and videos.
The plans range from $29.95 to $54.90 a month and will limit usage to five, 10, 20 or 40 gigabytes of data per month. Going over those caps will cost $1 for each gigabyte.
“Even the highest cap of 40 gigs is just ridiculous,” Polinsky said. “They’re designed so that customers will go over.”
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The answer imo is more competition. The fact that TW is conducting their tests in areas where FiOS isn’t leads me to believe it’s because they know their plan isn’t popular at all.
“The answer imo is more competition.”
That is always the solution. When cable first came out their prices were regulated since they had a monopoly on cable tv and I believe that is still the case, although I am not sure about internet through cable. In most cases the alternative to cable internet is DSL or FIOS.
I have it. ATT is very, very good in it’s web connections. I will have to agree with mo’ Freeper that the reason why I stuck with ATT is because they are the ONLY known ISP so far NOT to throttle connections when downloading, unlike Comcast and verizon.
Thanks. I’m going to check into it.
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