Usage caps are dead, right? So why are Time Warner changing the terms and conditions of their Internet service to say: If the level or tier of HSD Service to which I subscribe has a specified limit on the amount of bytes that I can use in a given billing cycle, I also agree that [...]
Every time there’s an article about Time Warner’s plans to cripple their broadband service in order to protect their TV service revenue, I see people make comments like the following: I wouldn’t mind keeping on paying for cable TV if I could just get the channels I want, and not have to pay for dozens [...]
In The Guardian Cory Doctorow writes about the possible chilling effect of usage-based Internet billing schemes: But the real problem of per-usage billing is that no one – not even the most experienced internet user – can determine in advance how much bandwidth they’re about to consume before they consume it. Before you clicked on [...]
Austinist reports that the Austin Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission is preparing possible reponses in case the Time Warner usage cap issue rises again. According to Chip Rosenthal there isn’t all that much the city can do, as apparently when the city’s cable franchise was approved in 1996 nobody thought to include Internet services in [...]
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon announced a new net neutrality bill on Tuesday. ZDnet has the text of the bill, unfortunately only as bitmap images.
The New York Times looks at quarterly results, and comes to the same conclusions as everyone else: broadband is getting cheaper for the cable companies, but licensing fees for TV programming keep going up, which is why cable bills keep going up. That’s also why Time Warner wants to prevent people from ditching their cable [...]
It’s the weekend, so why not take a few minutes out of your day to try and fight back against unfair usage caps and overage charges? On April 8th, the FCC published docket GN 09-51: In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — known as the stimulus package — Congress charged the Commission [...]
Consumers Union are the publishers of Consumer Reports. They’ve just published their comments on the Time Warner usage charges. When TWC released its first quarter financial results this week the hard numbers completely contradicted the company’s argument that it was being forced to go to a metered broadband model. In fact, the numbers showed that [...]
