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End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - Grumpyguy - 06-03-2008
More news on cable's quest to create a pay as you surf system.
TW's test, as the article points out, doesn't provide a great amount of bandwith if you, say, download movies from iTunes.
I'm guessing the small thinking of cable will allow other providers to step in....
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080602/tec_time_warner_cable_internet.html?.v=4
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - Sam3 - 06-03-2008
But like George Ou said, metered Internet was tried and rejected by consumers since AOL went unlimited. My guess is people will reject this as well as they get on board with movie downloads from Apple, Netflix and others.
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - kap - 06-03-2008
9 years ago I worked as level 1 tech support at ELN in Pasadena, CA. We were instructed not to reveal to high usage customers that they were red-flagged due bandwidth limitation.
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - Will Collier - 06-03-2008
Much more likely result is a huge surge of new subscribers to the local DSL provider, followed by the firing of the Time Warner pinheads who thought this was a good idea...
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - BigGuynRusty - 06-03-2008
[quote Will Collier]Much more likely result is a huge surge of new subscribers to the local DSL provider, followed by the firing of the Time Warner pinheads who thought this was a good idea... I WISH there was a DSL provider available.
I would have changed years ago.
BGnR
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - Will Collier - 06-03-2008
[quote BigGuynRusty][quote Will Collier]Much more likely result is a huge surge of new subscribers to the local DSL provider, followed by the firing of the Time Warner pinheads who thought this was a good idea... I WISH there was a DSL provider available.
I would have changed years ago.
BGnR
If AT&TSWBellSouth doesn't roll out DSL to every Time Warner household in Beaumont, they they're... well, every bit as stupid as I already thought they were...
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - Grumpyguy - 06-03-2008
LOL Will.
The modern internet requires a great amount of bandwith. It is like TW wants to commit business suicide.
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - BigGuynRusty - 06-03-2008
[quote Will Collier][quote BigGuynRusty][quote Will Collier]Much more likely result is a huge surge of new subscribers to the local DSL provider, followed by the firing of the Time Warner pinheads who thought this was a good idea... I WISH there was a DSL provider available.
I would have changed years ago.
BGnR
If AT&TSWBellSouth doesn't roll out DSL to every Time Warner household in Beaumont, they they're... well, every bit as stupid as I already thought they were... In January 2000 the director of the data division of AT&T assured me that they would have DSL to my house within 8 months.
It is now 8+ years later, according to the director of the data division (different person then above), they "Cannot speak of future plans".
BGnR
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - dk62 - 06-03-2008
I don't know. If the infrastucture causes slowdowns for light users because of heavy users, metered paying is the most fair way to deal with it. I want fast connection when I need it, but I would rather buy physical media for video content than pirate substandard quality stuff. I am all for either metered paying or for throttling of peer-to-peer networking. I realize this is not popular standpoint, particularly among a certain low-income population, but I would be wiling to pay more for a service that caters to my needs.
Once the infrastructure is in place, video content download from legitimate sources may be the way to go, assuming that the signal has bitrate way higher than currently available on even HD (but low-quality) downloads. But someone has to pay for that ifrastructure, and charging more those people who require higher throughput (let's say 5% of customers), as opposed to spreading the cost evenly among everyone, would seem a logical way to go.
Re: End of the internet or end of cable as a provider - AllGold - 06-04-2008
Sounds pretty brutal to me. I wouldn't give them any of my money for this:
Those who go over the allowed time will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told The Associated Press.
Monday, Leddy said its tiers will range from $29.95 a month for relatively slow service at 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for fast downloads at 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Those prices cover the Internet portion of subscription bundles that include video or phone services. Both downloads and uploads will count toward the monthly cap.
$55/month for 15Mbps and a 40GB cap? At that speed you could hit the cap in a single day.