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Old 01-20-2008, 01:06 PM
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Check out the link I just posted - tiered pricing will only apply to new customers.
I read that article a couple of times, but I'm not seeing any refernce to a limit on the change in that article you posted. Can you please quote the sentence or phrase that indicates it applies to new customers?
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Old 01-20-2008, 02:11 PM
 
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I read that article a couple of times, but I'm not seeing any refernce to a limit on the change in that article you posted. Can you please quote the sentence or phrase that indicates it applies to new customers?
Time Warner Cable to Test Internet Caps in Texas - 1/17/2008 1:52:00 PM - Multichannel News (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6523660.html - broken link)
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Old 01-20-2008, 02:23 PM
 
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the lock-in should guarantee the price, especially since it is a guaranteed price deal..

They'd lose pretty much every customer they have if they got that stupid.. which is possible of course but I think sprint is showing the industry that customer service is important and I will be another 5 subscribers sprint loses when my contract is up. They totally screwed up by providing no customer service at all and I will not shed a tear for anyone losing their job and will celebrate the day they go out of business (which hopefully will happen soon so I can get out of my contract earlier).
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Old 01-20-2008, 06:04 PM
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Time Warner Cable to Test Internet Caps in Texas - 1/17/2008 1:52:00 PM - Multichannel News (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6523660.html - broken link)
Got it now.

"The tiered pricing would apply only to new customers, not existing ones."

I'm skeptical that it will stay that way.
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Old 04-09-2008, 03:13 PM
 
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LATE Post... but I can't help but to point out... I think the irony in all of this is that they provide free binary Usenet access.

I'll drop them like a bad habit the day this counter intuitive to this nation's bandwidth crunch comes into play. Should be unlimited, but not in a Verizon way ;p
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Old 04-09-2008, 10:57 PM
 
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Good to know about this because I was looking into different options for after the move. I wouldn't consider Time Warner at all because of this!
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Old 04-10-2008, 07:12 AM
 
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I doutbt this will materialize any time in the near future in S.A. Probably more likely in a market where they have less competition... could easily just leave them and go to Earthlink or ATT.
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Old 04-10-2008, 07:43 AM
 
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Good to know about this because I was looking into different options for after the move. I wouldn't consider Time Warner at all because of this!
ehh, that's a shame because they don't do it here... and according to another thread on here, RR is also increasing their Turbo service to 15 mbps down and 2 mbps up (I personally have not verified that though). It definitely doesn't make sense to pay for at&t's "elite" service (6 mbps down and 768 kbps up) that isn't even in the same ball park as RR.
and RR Turbo really is that fast too.. I had to download the install package for Java Studio Enterprise the other day and it took about 80 seconds to download the full 100 Mb file.
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Old 04-10-2008, 08:59 AM
 
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Got it now.

"The tiered pricing would apply only to new customers, not existing ones."

I'm skeptical that it will stay that way.
This could cause them to have better pricing, the real motive is to drive away the 5% of customers who use 50% of bandwidth. If all of a sudden they have enough bandwidth to double the number of non high use customers without building out more expensive infrastructure, they could half their prices.

Ok probably not half, but lower than anybody else, especially of everybody else had to build out more infrastructure to service the 5% they just got rid of.
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Old 04-10-2008, 09:12 AM
 
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This could cause them to have better pricing, the real motive is to drive away the 5% of customers who use 50% of bandwidth. If all of a sudden they have enough bandwidth to double the number of non high use customers without building out more expensive infrastructure, they could half their prices.
Moderator cut: inappropriate remark All it will do is encourage TW's customers to flock to an ISP that doesn't charge by the byte and, if none still exist, someone will start one up.

If TW implements this it'll be a real coup for AT&T's U-verse.

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