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"Hey Time Warner - Educate This!"
Here are some pictures from the rally this afternoon at Time Warner in Rochester, New York. Click the individual images to enlarge them if you wish. Courtesy: Jerry, who sent them our way.
"Give Us Gigabytes Or Give Us Death!"
Time Warner Providing a Friendly & Inviting Image
Every Entrance But One Was Blocked Off, With Temporary Signs Galore
A Lot of Customers Probably Figured They Were Closed
In Front of the Employee Entrance, Which Time Warner Blocked
Protesters Extending Beyond the Building
Protesters En Route
Walking Down Mt. Hope Avenue
In Front of Time Warner
Here’s my notes on the protest, and two video links:
http://steveswitzer.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/protest-has-low-turnout/
Here’s my attempt an an HTML link on this site
It’s a shame that the ten of you that showed up dragged your kids out of bed this morning for this.
This affects everyone of all ages, and especially shapes the future of the Internet as they will grow up to know.
For being something that the masses are apparently “uneducated” about, I’d say the Rally looked pretty good in terms of turn out. It’s not like it was an Obama speech.
What else are you going to do with your kid, leave them home?
http://www.digtriad.com/news/local_state/article.aspx?storyid=122721 here is a link to some news coverage of the Greensboro event.
Time Warner= Starkwood on 24
TW: Let’s begin the ‘education’ process then. Please hand over your wallet.
Customer: WTF!
IMHO; While I agree that everyone has the right to their own views, I thought this site was a place for those of us who disagree with TW to band together in opposition of Usage Caps? There are many avenues for people that think we are a bunch of whiners to band together to support TW but does it have to be here? Fighting the monopoly is frustrating enough but then to follow this site and read the (I’ll be polite here) negative comments really gets my blood pressure going. I wish the nay sayers would just start thier own… Read more »
Amen.
I know a number of people who have both cable and internet access from Time Warner. I suspect a number of people will cancel cable if this usage cap that equates to a huge price increase goes through. This would send a strong message. Dish Network and Directv both provide a good alternative to Time Warner cable.
I have a two year “deal” for cable TV with TW that runs until 6/2010, so I would more than likely stay with them until then for my TV services. However, I did check with Frontier yesterday and got some facts and figures from them. Since I had tried DSL here in Webster for a short time last year I do know pretty much what to expect from them as far as speeds, etc….. And my one year deal for RR is up in June of this year , so I am getting close to making a decision here. But… Read more »
Stephen: Thanks for the great videos. I really loved #2 to most.
Don’t consider Schumer a savior, he is one that helped TW block COMCAST from entering Rochester and gave TW it’s monopoly status. If you really want to do something, lobby Schumer to bring compitition to TW!
American Consumer Institute isn’t actually a consumer group. A quick WhoIS notes that the ACI website is registered to Stephen Pociask, a telecom consultant and former chief economist for Bell Atlantic, who via groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, works to shape data that argues against government regulation of industry.
Comcast has never shown an interest in entering any city in upstate New York. Let me give you a history backgrounder of cable in western NY so you understand this a bit better. Way back in the 1980s, the cable operator Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), operated a few cable systems mostly in more rural communities in central and southern New York. TCI had gone about buying most of these systems from mom and pop providers, often kept their original names, and just ran them under the corporate umbrella. TCI would later become AT&T (Cable), and around that time, a company decision… Read more »
It looks as this is there first effort to education, at least a Senator:
http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2009/04/open-letter-to-senator-john-f-kerry/
We should respond to this by contacting Senator Kerry ourselves.
American Consumer Institute isn’t actually a consumer group. A quick WhoIS notes that the ACI website is registered to Stephen Pociask, a telecom consultant and former chief economist for Bell Atlantic, who via groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, works to shape data that argues against government regulation of industry.
I just tried to post a comment in response to the open letter to Senator Kerry and am told it is “awaiting moderation”. I don’t know whether or not they will post it, so I’ll post it here where I know it won’t be censored or “moderated”. There is no education required. Time Warner Cable customers very clearly understand this is nothing but a manipulative money play. It simply is TWC taking advantage of captive markets where there is NO competition offering comparable speeds or services. Verizon FiOS, offering comparably priced higher speed service with NO CAPS, is available in… Read more »
Verizon: While I do not know what their balance sheet is each year ill go out on a limb and assume they are the new star on the block. Their cell phone base is huge and that is a lot of money for their bottom line It also shows that not every company subscribed to the secret handshake deal as they continue to expand their new services across New York Every place but here. That needs to be looked at the reason why. Im very sure one or more of the political bunch in this area got to pluck the… Read more »