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Action Alert! Very Important Meeting for Austin Residents to Attend Tonight!

Phillip Dampier April 8, 2009 Issues 9 Comments

A hat tip to Nathan who reminds us that there is a very important meeting for Austin residents upset with Time Warner about their broadband rationing plan to attend tonight.  I know it can be a pain to get downtown to go, but make the effort to help nip this in the bud now, or pay a lot more later.

Austin Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission
Regular Meeting
Wednesday – April 8, 2009 – 6:30 p.m.
City Hall – Room 1101
301 W. 2nd Street, Austin

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Dion
Dion
14 years ago

I cant make it tonight, working until midnight but I hope some one takes some notes on what is said.

DogBoardN
DogBoardN
14 years ago

We should stop the bandwidth cap! This is an outrage. Consumer needs for bandwidth is constantly increasing.

This is is like Intel saying it’s going to put a cap on processor speed. The need for faster processors and more internet bandwidth is going up. Time Warner should be making investments to increase bandwidth for it’s customers– not capping it.

This is just a ploy by Time Warner to gouge their customers and make more profit while reducing service.

Austin should not stand for it.

nathan
nathan
14 years ago

Just got back from the City of Austin Telecommunications meeting. There were about 30 people there, most for the Time Warner Cable issue. Because the issue came up at such late notice, it wasn’t on the agenda, and therefore the committee wasn’t allowed to discuss it. However, 5 people signed up to talk about the caps. Speaker one was concerned that Austin was a testing area. We’re so tech savvy and TWC is such a monopoly here, that any study of usage would be flawed. Caps are unreasonable & too low. It’s a move to curb online video like Hulu… Read more »

Wes S
Wes S
14 years ago
Reply to  nathan

“We’re so tech savvy and TWC is such a monopoly here” That is pretty mush the same situation in Rochester. We have the Rochester Institute of Technology, and all these (former) kodak employees who are all tech savy. While it isn’t a monopoly, a duopoly is not much better. Also, you mentioned video chatting. This is important to Rochesters extreamly large Deaf Community. The National Technical School for the Deaf is also here in Rochester (at RIT), students who do not live on campus I’m sure (can’t be 100%, not part of the community) use video chat through programs such… Read more »

Sunflower
Sunflower
14 years ago
Reply to  nathan

I almost went tonight. There was a tweet from Chip R about an hour or so before the meeting that said tonight’s agenda was talking about Digital TV transition, and not TWC, so I decided to not go. I hope this will be discussed at a later time, though.

Hoss
Hoss
14 years ago

if you are in Austin, it’s on the CoA cable channel, channel 6 on TWC.

Miguel
Miguel
14 years ago

I recorded the people who spoke:

Chip
14 years ago

Thanks to the people who came down and spoke. Thanks also to those who came down and watched. It was standing-room only in the commission room. I don’t think that’s ever happened on a night we didn’t have a public hearing scheduled. There are ten speaker slots available for “General Citizen Communications” and all were filled. (Well, really 9, because one gentleman opted to put a statement on the record rather than speak.) Later in the meeting, when we got an update from city staff, we were informed (as we expected) that the city doesn’t have any regulatory authority on… Read more »

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