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Joe "Pags" Pagliarulo (WOAI-San Antonio) Takes Calls from Angry San Antonio Residents About Time Warner Usage Caps
Conservative talker Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo doesn’t sound too convinced by Time Warner’s explanation of why they need to slap usage caps on their customers in San Antonio. StoptheCap! reader Josh was kind enough to send us the audio. Pags doesn’t like it, and he tells San Antonio listeners Time Warner is already making plenty of money at the existing flat rate. He also tells listeners that several Beaumont subscribers ended up with Internet bills from Time Warner amounting to “hundreds of dollars” a month.
Joe has been online since the days of Prodigy, so he’s well aware of what sounds like fact and what sounds like fiction.
So much for the “potential savings” Time Warner keeps telling people could be just around the corner. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, it looks like nobody in the real world is convinced by Time Warner’s Money Party.
Audio Clip: WOAI-AM San Antonio, Texas (17 minutes)
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Ahh memory lane. Joe “Pags” for his Rochester connection on WHAM during Lonsberry’s absence, and Prodigy for the countless hours I spent on their gaming message boards as a teenager in high school. It sounds like Josh at about 15:15 in the audio tried to plug this website. Hopefully Pags will check it out and publicize it in a future show. Here are some relevant, although unreferenced, quotes from the linked Wikipedia article: Price increases: “In an attempt to control costs and raise revenue, Prodigy undertook two separate actions. First, Prodigy modified their basic subscriber plans by allowing only thirty… Read more »
I thought the name was vaguely familiar. I can’t endure anything on WHAM personally, and while Bob Lonsberry may be a nice guy, his voice on the radio drives me batty. I essentially left local radio behind several years ago and now basically can’t live without my XM Radio in the car and home. And I was among the earliest users of Prodigy as well. Loved that clunky 640×480-style early graphical software designed to be the anti-Compu$erve, but perhaps deeper than AOL was around that time. People usually signed up for it based on promotions from Rochester Telephone. It was… Read more »
Thanks for posting the discussion. When I sent you the link previously, part 1 of the discussion with Alex Duddly, Timewarner PR rep, wasn’t available. Joe Pags recently upload the first part. To listen, check it out here: http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/SANANTONIO-TX/WOAI-AM/4-2%20HR%203%20part1.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=SANANTONIO-TX&NG_FORMAT=newstalk&SITE_ID=1229&STATION_ID=WOAI-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=Joe_Pags&PCAST_CAT=On_Air&PCAST_TITLE=Joe_Pags_Show_Podcast
-Josh
I remember years ago (8 maybe?) where TW implemented a cap on bandwidth with the same justification now – a small percentage of the users were using a large percent of the bandwidth. The cap would make the service “fair” for everyone.
I haven’t called TW yet, but a couple questions are:
1. Was that not effective? Why?
2. Why wouldn’t you implement another BW cap and offer higher speeds for additional cost (kind of like what you offer now with RR Turbo)
I will switch if they implement this.
-Eric
This is all about protecting their very lucrative Video on Demand TV service. By applying these caps it will sway customers from using up their allotted bandwidth on downloading movies/videos from places like netflix, hulu, and other competing video/movie places. Customers will be forced to rent video services from time warner in order to save on bandwidth.
“…This is all about protecting their very lucrative Video on Demand TV service. By applying these caps it will sway customers from using up their allotted bandwidth on downloading movies/videos from places like netflix, hulu, and other competing video/movie places. Customers will be forced to rent video services from time warner in order to save on bandwidth….” Peter has absolutely hit the nail on the head. There are other complicated business reasons as well, but this will help them to prop up a sagging business for them. (at our expense) P.S. I also loved the posts above. I was a… Read more »