Comments on: NY Times Exposes Time Warner’s Rationing Plan as Profit Grab Scam

By: jonah

jonah — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:19:05 +0000

I just cancelled my service and switched to verizon … it’s a better deal anyway

By: LUX.ET.UMBRA » More on Time Warner Cable and Metered Billing

LUX.ET.UMBRA » More on Time Warner Cable and Metered Billing — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:52:04 +0000

[...] find that Liberty Global and NTT Communications basically sell DOCSIS 3.0 service at almost similar pricing monthly as what current US consumers pay. Except, we’re getting the data caps [...]

By: Jeffrey_Bays

Jeffrey_Bays — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:25:07 +0000

I agree that we can stop the broadban for a couple of months, but the reality is that if rochester dissapeared, no one would notice. TWC knows that.

When it counts: The day they start the transition. … I work in a world of statistics. You look at the data that is important. They will most likely not be looking at the before and after data. They will look at the day of start and the day of ending. You have to remember that the people that make these types of decisions do not work a 9 – 5 . They take whatever they want to hear and manipulate it to fit their vision. It is obvious that they have already done that with the Texas “test” market’s data from Beaumont. The fact that they are not willing to share any of the raw data is dubious at best.

By: bouvy

bouvy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:49:52 +0000

correction, without internet cable.

By: bouvy

bouvy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:46:00 +0000

Everyone could survive 2-3 months without cable. Is it really a necesity? I myself am super addicted to getting on the internet multiple times a day and just to fulfill my compulsive behavior with it. I could find something else to do, that I am sure of. Think of it this way, many of us could boycott them and cancel service, or switch for that matter. I challenge you all to do it for 3 months. Once you see their 2nd and 3rd quarter earnings, it will just fuel our purpose even further. I would love to see them in the red. It would compel myself to quit tw even longer. Classic postive feedback! Who are they, the are worse than the government. This is absurd. If anyone should get money from excessive downloading, it should be the artist, actors, etc, that made the movies, not the cable company that is pissed because internet offers a cheaper alternative to the expensive cable packages. If they didn’t charge a ridiculous amount for cable in the first place, they probably wouldn’t be in this predicament.

By: Lee Drake

Lee Drake — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:50:56 +0000

Problem is that even my nice new HD tv can’t receive many of their channels because they use switched video, which only works on Tivo’s with an adaptor or their box. If you turn off Analog you either increase their cable box rental revenue per household, or you blacken the screen for many many users who route the cable into their tv directly.

By: Lee Drake

Lee Drake — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:49:19 +0000

Here’s the answer to your question:

Number of business accounts 283,000
Number of home accounts over 4M

Business is a drop in the bucket for them. They could lose it all and not blink. http://bit.ly/593K

By: Ted Husted

Ted Husted — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:13:30 +0000

In terms of a boycott, don’t forget about your TMX stock. If your holding TXM shares, sell your stock, and let investor relations know why.

http://ir.timewarner.com/comment.cfm

It just split, so it’s a great time to make a dent.

-Ted.

By: SMay

SMay — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:53:16 +0000

If Time Warner thinks I’m going to stick w/them if they want to cap bandwidth, they’ve got another thing coming… I already dropped them over 2 years ago after their crappy service, and being on the phone (that time alone) with them for over 3.5 hrs! just to downgrade service while I was going out of town on vac.. I got fed up w/them then, and just told them to stick it… I’ll do it again… weather I’m going to come close the cap or not, I don’t care… it’s like having charges on your phone for local calls! … and they say it’s like “cell” service charges… so are they going to provide a detailed bill w/all the ip addresses and amount of data transferred by the minute? … I shouldn’t have to pay for the garbage they can’t keep out of the emails, etc… who do they think they are…

***CALL TO ARMS FOR ALL — EVERYBODY boycott Time Warner… let’s flood them with EMails…. (all the companies attempting to put “caps” on us)… what they heck is the internet for? … EVERYBODY bombard them with emails on April 13, 2009… see if they can “handle” the outrage!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:20:25 +0000

Definitely a myth about lack of bandwidth.

TWC are still running ANALOG cable! That’s 2.5Gbits/sec at least!

Therefore the solution is simple in my eyes. “Upgrade” everyone to digital cable, turn off the analog everywhere, offer more HD channels (and save bandwidth by eliminating duplicate SD channels) and increase Internet bandwidth by deploying DOCSIS 3.0 as an interim solution.

Eventually everyone may need to be fibered up but this will stave it off for 15-20 years. Alternatively someone may come up with some new modulation techniques or ways to squeeze even higher frequencies through coax so that there won’t be the problem of having to fiber up.

By: phil

phil — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:37:18 +0000

I was pondering this on one of the Facebook groups this morning. I see nothing wrong with collecting the names of businesses who are spending their ad dollars on local ad inserts on Time Warner cable and suggesting they need to take their business somewhere else or else we might.

Since this is all about the bottom line for Time Warner, affecting that will probably get more attention that trying to reason with them on a rational, fact-based basis.

Who wants to organize this?

By: Chris Acheson

Chris Acheson — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:34:35 +0000

What’s wrong with boycotting? I think that’s a great idea. If the businesses in question don’t want to be harmed, they’ll play ball, and then they won’t be harmed. If we rule the tactic out, we’ll reduce our effectiveness, and then we’ll be the ones harmed.

Think of it this way: if we’re paying more money to TW, we have less money to spend locally, thus hurting local businesses (and by extension, local workers).

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:16:44 +0000

Why don’t we take this fight to the TWC local advertisers?

I don’t want to condone boycotting local businesses, but if we could convince them to drop their relationship with TWC that would have a far greater impact than any online petition or facebook group.

Any organized way to do this without harming local businesses?