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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Time Warner tired of making money

Apparently charging the most for internet access isn't good enough

On Thursday, Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president, said the plan will be launched as a trial in Beaumont, Texas, and will consist of several tiers. The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per second with a 5GB monthly cap, while a plan at $54.90 per month will offer 15 megabits per second and a 40GB cap.


Texas is first on the chopping block, so be prepared. I have used cable for the past several years and my service has degraded over time as more people use it, and now instead of fixing it they want more money for a poorer service. If this becomes SOP then I will just get my p0nr the old fashion way....at the dirty book store.

posted by davis14633 at 22:26

1 Comments:

Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

I am happily transitioning from ComCastration to AT&T DSL this weekend.

Had a bit of a annoying glitch because the order folks had me configured as 3MB instead of 6MB and was an annoyance navigating the "Phone Firewall" of 1st level support dweebs between me and the folks that actually know something and can fix things.

The bad thing about AT&T is the Big-Corporation-itis of actually getting through to the people who actually can do something other than tell you to reboot, run speed test, and open tickets.

The good thing, is the guys in the back room really do know their shit so you don't have to call the tech support line much.

In the 10ish years that I had DSL before I moved. I only once had any sort of service issue. And once I could actually get through to the smart people, the problem was identified and fixed quickly.

21:51  

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