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October 2, 2009
Be Sure to Read Part One: Astroturf Overload — Broadband for America = One Giant Industry Front Group for an important introduction to what this super-sized industry front group is all about. Members of Broadband for America Red: A company or group actively engaging in anti-consumer lobbying, opposes Net Neutrality, supports Internet Overcharging, belongs to […]
October 2, 2009
Astroturf: One of the underhanded tactics increasingly being used by telecom companies is “Astroturf lobbying” – creating front groups that try to mimic true grassroots, but that are all about corporate money, not citizen power. Astroturf lobbying is hardly a new approach. Senator Lloyd Bentsen is credited with coining the term in the 1980s to […]
September 27, 2009
Hong Kong remains bullish on broadband. Despite the economic downturn, City Telecom continues to invest millions in constructing one of Hong Kong’s largest fiber optic broadband networks, providing fiber to the home connections to residents. City Telecom’s HK Broadband service relies on an all-fiber optic network, and has been dubbed “the Verizon FiOS of Hong […]
September 23, 2009
BendBroadband, a small provider serving central Oregon, breathlessly announced the imminent launch of new higher speed broadband service for its customers after completing an upgrade to DOCSIS 3. Along with the launch announcement came a new logo of a sprinting dog the company attaches its new tagline to: “We’re the local dog. We better be […]
September 23, 2009
Stop the Cap! reader Rick has been educating me about some of the new-found aggression by Shaw Communications, one of western Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, in expanding its business reach across Canada. Woe to those who get in the way. Novus Entertainment is already familiar with this story. As Stop the Cap! reported previously, Shaw […]
September 22, 2009
The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, the Canadian equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, may be forced to consider American broadband policy before defining Net Neutrality and its role in Canadian broadband, according to an article published today in The Globe & Mail. [FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s] proposal – to codify and enforce some […]
September 21, 2009
In March 2000, two cable magnates sat down for the cable industry equivalent of My Dinner With Andre. Fine wine, beautiful table linens, an exquisite meal, and a Monopoly board with pieces swapped back and forth representing hundreds of thousands of Canadian consumers. Ted Rogers and Jim Shaw drew a line on the western Ontario […]
September 11, 2009
Just like FairPoint Communications, the Towering Inferno of phone companies haunting New England, Frontier Communications is making a whole lot of promises to state regulators and consumers, if they’ll only support the deal to transfer ownership of phone service from Verizon to them. This time, Frontier is issuing a self-serving press release touting their investment […]
September 7, 2009
I see it took all of five minutes for George Ou and his friends at Digital Society to be swayed by the tunnel vision myopia of last week’s latest effort to justify Internet Overcharging schemes. Until recently, I’ve always rationalized my distain for smaller usage caps by ignoring the fact that I’m being subsidized by […]
September 1, 2009
In 2007, we took our first major trip away from western New York in 20 years and spent two weeks an hour away from Calgary, Alberta. After two weeks in Kananaskis Country, Banff, Calgary, and other spots all over southern Alberta, we came away with the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Good Alberta […]
August 31, 2009
A federal appeals court in Washington has struck down, for a second time, a rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission to limit the size of the nation’s largest cable operators to 30% of the nation’s pay television marketplace, calling the rule “arbitrary and capricious.” The 30% rule, designed to keep no single company from controlling […]
August 27, 2009
Less than half of Americans surveyed by PC Magazine report they are very satisfied with the broadband speed delivered by their Internet service provider. PC Magazine released a comprehensive study this month on speed, provider satisfaction, and consumer opinions about the state of broadband in their community. The publisher sampled more than 17,000 participants, checking […]
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Thanks for the info phil looks like ill be going to this one tomorrow Hope to see everyone there.
I will be there for sure.
I intend to go Friday and will pass the info along on my facebook group/cause.
I will be going on Friday. Live just up the road from this location in fact. Wonder if I can go in with a camera to record the session.
Call Eric Massa’s Office and ask. They did it in Texas.
Has anyone notified the media (esp. Kate Perry)? It’d be nice to see some coverage in the news.
It is on the calendar for 13WHAM News per Rachel Barnhart, but I do not know whether they will actually appear or not.
Internet users upset by Time Warner’s usage-based pricing plan
Kate Perry • Staff writer • April 9, 2009
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090409/BUSINESS/904090334
I live right over in Riverton so i’ll be there.
while I don’t think this cap is fair, or close – it should be noted that the existing time warner road runner service agreement allows them to cap internet usage based on amount transferred or speed. So they technically can already do this. Setting a cap as absurdly low as 40 GB/month is just bad business. In fact its terrible business. Sure this is getting a lot of media and perhaps its just a publicity stunt, but it is a terrible idea. you can easily track some of your bandwidth usage just by setting windows task manager to monitor bytes… Read more »
I will be attending the one in Pittsford tonight, I hope everyone in the area turns out to show their support for our cause. I ask anyone who is going to be speaking tonight to be polite and thank Massa, but also to come prepared with good talking points, and ones that will rebuke TWC main talking points. Phil has posted some good ones so I will just recap ones i think should be addressed. – Why does Time Warner think they have to ration internet bandwidth while other companies like Verizon offer faster speeds and no caps, and comcast… Read more »
I just returned from the town meeting with Eric Massa in Pittsford. WOW! Eric Massa passionately owns this issue and made it patently clear he would stake his office and his political career on his efforts to fight Time Warner’s attempt to institute bandwidth caps. He totally understands the issue. He not only sees this as a local concern, he views this as the serious threat it is against our national economy and security. Kudos to Eric! Please do everything you can do to help support his congressional efforts to fight Time Warner’s greed driven attempts to abuse their monopoly.
I wish I could be there to support Mr. Massa and his efforts. We are doing everything we can to spread the word. Good Luck Team.
I attended the one in Henrietta and he is very passionate about the issue and will stand up and put his reelection on the line for the people against Time Warner.
I also was able to sneak in a question to ask when we can expect to see Eric Massa on the Colbert Report…his response…never! 🙁 I guess we won’t be seeing Congressman Massa shotgunning a beer in the near future.