Comments on: They’re Back: Time Warner Cable Adds Cap ‘n Tier Language to Subscriber Agreements

By: JM

JM — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:37:46 +0000

Such an outrage, obviously a prelude to going through with what they said they had shelved … this is the behavior of a monopolist.

Still catching up on the latest.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:12:41 +0000

Get the media involved?

Just who the heck do you think Time Warner is?

Here’s a hint. The Media is not on your side, The Media IS the other side…

Privacy is dead. Get over it. You live in a Socialist Republic. Don’t blame me, you voted for him.

By: Phillip Dampier

Phillip Dampier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:14:30 +0000

Folks, you may want to drop by and help educate our friends in Syracuse who need more actual facts about this issue than some of the company line absorbed and repeated by a few readers in their comment threads.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/time_warner_cable_boosts_downl.html

By: Uncle Ken

Uncle Ken — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:00:29 +0000

Prevent: There are not that many heavy users. They just want more money from everybody and this is getting boring. The lobby bucket is filling up faster then subscribers.

By: Uncle Ken

Uncle Ken — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:47:39 +0000

So what Bagdad bob is back after an extended vacation in Japan. I said today’s terms are not tomorrows. Conventional warfare is not going to work…. It is going to have to get messy as no one is going to back down unless regulation takes over. I think they should get remote starters.

By: preventCAPS

preventCAPS — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:44:21 +0000

The significance of the language being there shadows the importace of when it was put in place.

I hope TWCAlex being back in play dosn’t mean another undesireable announcement is on the way, especially if it’s to the tune of “We cancled the small divisional trials to allow our focus to shift on saving our entire consumer base money by allowing them to pay for what they use instead of subsidizing a small percentage of heave users.”

By: Phillip Dampier

Phillip Dampier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:56:52 +0000

Our good friend TWCAlex is back. He says the latest terms and conditions were published last August and that we were notified of the changes. That’s news to me. At the same time, another TWC rep in the same article, now referenced in an addendum to the original story, said the terms were “changing all the time.”

San Antonio customers seeing an amendment notice on their May 2009 bill would be right to investigate, and regardless of the date question, the term changes were news to us, particularly the importance and implication of their wording.

By: Uncle Ken

Uncle Ken — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:42:36 +0000

Bob I think you would love fiber. I know I would. With fiber you could run your house from the moon. Trouble is copper was there first but it is beat up and showing its age. Then somebody came along and spent a bundle to run coax line and is also showing its age. Case in point the last time they ran a new line to the house here last year it was so brittle the insulation just cracked away from the shield braid. Now another company will have to run fiber. The big mystery is why a 2 horse one stop light town can have it and we can’t.

By: Uncle Ken

Uncle Ken — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:20:51 +0000

Phill says “Anything above 10c a GB is overpriced IMHO.”
OK a line is now drawn in the sand. Others will draw lines as well. Maybe 8 cents or 5 cents.
People ARE looking for new ideas all the time. Getting TW to agree to any of them is another story.

By: Uncle Ken

Uncle Ken — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:05:13 +0000

Ok then. I thought Docsis 3 required some sort of outside work perhaps from the pole to the house. I was wrong. Shows you how much I still have to learn about those modems. Even I can switch out a modem 2 cables and a power line. Everybody here knows how to switch a modem and if you neighbor has a problem it’s about time to hop over there and help them over a cold one. Naturally the price is going to be the main factor but if it helps their distribution system one would hope the price stays the same. If I understand Docsis 3 at all it seems to do some magical things on the existing coax to negate the need for the overall system upgrades TW is always talking about. If they want to charge me $30 for a new modem I would probably go along with that to help defray the costs but with that comes rock solid agreements to pricing on their part. I get a cool new modem and they get a better system. I can live with that. Mr. Hightower on several occasions has said the cost of people working there is growing. That is not true. Today’s companies are very good at removing pensions, lowering salaries by 20 percent, and good old out sourcing. They can control labor cost anytime they want to so that is no longer a factor in overall pricing models.
It is nice to have a mega thread. The forum topic seems to have hit a nerve and has peoples attention.