SubscribeGood Friday to everyone. Thanks for the tremendous amount of tips and guest blogging requests we’re receiving. I am going to be running several errands today and into early this evening. I will hope to get caught up with everyone’s email and access requests on Saturday, so please don’t think if you have not heard back from me I wasn’t interested in what you had to say.
I have been working this issue nonstop since April 1st and need to take a break for the afternoon, but don’t worry, I’ll be recharged and ready to ago again this evening.
Remember, if you are so inclined, to let the good folks at Time Warner know their “new and improved” plan is insulting and until they come up with a plan to get rid of the caps, nothing has changed.
Interesting read…….and another name to contact and voice opposition too…
“New York Congressman Eric Massa has already registered his displeasure with TWC’s trial, but the real test will be if Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) responds. He’s key because he runs a sub-committee on the internet and telecommunications, and has many levers to force telecoms to change their ways.”
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/consumer-group.html
I am glad to see that someone at wired.com has picked up this story. However, the story mentions that frontier has a 5GB cap. The link in the story goes to the acceptable use policy where frontier outlines what it considers acceptable usage. This was the statement in their Acceptable Use Policy: “Frontier may suspend, terminate or apply additional charges to the Service if such usage exceeds a reasonable amount of usage. A reasonable amount of usage is defined as 5GB combined upload and download consumption during the course of a 30-day billing period. ” https://frontier.com/~/media/corporate/policies/aup-residential.ashx It looks like even… Read more »
This site did battle with Frontier over this issue last summer. If you wade all the way back in the article pile, you’ll see the long history. In the end, Frontier left the AUP the way it is, but will not enforce or take any negative actions against any customers who exceed it. They have also made it clear they have abandoned caps as an issue at least through 2010, and customers who sign up with a Price Protection Agreement are exempt from any cap action for the length of their contract term. We’re hopeful Frontier will enjoy the massive… Read more »
Update: http://www.boucher.house.gov/
Contact at: http://www.boucher.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=645&Itemid=
Something kind of scary/bizarre occurred to me recently… It appears to me that this entire grab for money is almost a little too obvious… How is it possible that one of the largest Cable/Internet providers in our country can expect to “pull one over” on so many people? Can a company with enough expertise in communications to gain such a giant customer base really think that they can change their service plan so drastically without an enormous public outcry? Is this really a “grab for money” or is there something we’re missing? I’m not pointing any fingers, but I think… Read more »
This isn’t really being ‘missed’, but, the main component of this is TW trying to grow their new VOD market. They are trying to impose the caps to force ppl to stop using hulu/youtube and netflix VOD services. Eventually they will unveil their Video on Demand service and they’ll proclaim ‘d/l’s don’t count against service cap!!!’. So anytime you want to stream video, naturally you’ll do it from their website/service. The extra money they will make from this is just icing on the cake. They are a communications company as you state and I’m sure they are well aware of… Read more »
Im so happy Wired pick up the story I emailed them several times since April first about it, Glad to see someone ran with it