PC World has a few harsh truths for Time Warner: Hot news: Charging by the minute for voice calls and by the message for SMS is a losing game. Likewise, charging for cable television by the channel or group of channels. All are dead business models that would be gone already except for the big [...]
Ars technica digs up Time Warner’s comments to the FCC: Now is not the time, nor is this the appropriate proceeding, to engage in a debate about the need for net neutrality obligations. [...] Debates in this proceeding about new net neutrality regulations would only divert attention from these important goals, delaying the distribution of [...]
New York Congressman Eric Massa is planning to introduce Federal legislation to limit ISPs’ ability to cap usage. No information yet on the wording of the legislation. Technorati Profile
Tuan Nguyen over at Tom’s Hardware discusses the Time Warner usage caps: Cable companies have a vested interest in protecting their business, which is providing TV and movie services to their millions of subscribers. The more online movie and music services that pop online, the more threat there is to their bread and butter. The [...]
WIRED reports that consumer advocacy group FreePress is launching a petition calling for Time Warner to be investigated by Congress. Also, I note that Time Warner’s latest proposal is that they charge $2 per GB overage charges on their cheapest broadband offering. (Remember, the bandwidth costs them around 3ยข per GB.)
Take action against the Time Warner bandwidth caps by writing to the FCC to comment on the impact on video programming competition.
WIRED magazine analyzes whether it’s really true that Time Warner is being forced to implement usage caps so that it can afford to keep providing the bandwidth it needs to: For 2008, the most recent period available, Time Warner Cable reported that its high-speed data costs actually declined by 12 percent to $146 million. Meanwhile [...]
I decided to take a look at a transcript of Time Warner’s most recent quarterly earnings call. I found the following interesting comments from Glenn A. Britt, President and CEO: The reality is we are starting to see the beginnings of core cutting where people, typically young people, are saying all I need is broadband. [...]
Video of the citizen comments is now available on YouTube.
