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Time Warner sucks!!!

"We appreciate the feedback" my foot. Do these guys actually believe the garbage that comes out of their mouths? I'm sick of the constant lies that these guys say. Why can't they just tell the truth? "We're greedy SOB's, and we know we've got you where we want you, and now you're going to pay."

I know how to stop them dead in their greedy tracks..........drop their service. I've already gotten rid of their tv service, guess what is next.

I guess July will be the time to find a new ISP.

So not only are they going to limit you on bandwidth, but speed too? How is this ANYTHING other than a money grab? We need to get our representatives involved and stop this, or get them thrown out as a cable provider here. For them to do this during an economic downturn is going to take net away from folks, not enable more to get it.

ATT is offering dry loop service and there is Sat TV. They continue on this track, and that is where I am going in August.

And for the record, I only use around 15gb a month, but the bulk of that is phone service. How in the world do these folks get away with using terms like Unlimited, when in fact it is not, is beyond me.

TWC thinks it has most people by the short ones because there ARE no alternatives for some people.

Most apartment dwellers can't get satillite because the landlords won't let the companies fix the dish to the building.

AT&T doesn't reach many areas, nor does North State.

I'm thankful I was able to kick TWC to the curb last August. AT&T too, if they're going to go with this nonesense, and they are talking about it.

What's frustrating is in some places you literally have no choices in providers. I'm happy with North State--but happy or not, they're the provider I have to use for phone services and Internet unless I go back to TWC.

There needs to be more competition. Break up these monopolies!

This is an insult, TWC seriously believes we are stupid to believe all their talking points. We need to push for AT&T U-Verse and/or Verizon FIOS in this area immediately. Then we can see how fast TWC will drop the caps when real competition is in the area.

This is what happens when you only have one cable company to choose from.
I will be switching to DSL myself.

Wired analyzed and graphed Time Warner's 2008 over 2007 broadband revenue and expenses. The data came straight from TW's own 2008 financial report. Not surprisingly, TW's broadband revenue and subscriber base increased while its broadband expenses decreased. This tiered pricing scheme is clearly TW's attempt to increase revenue as people drop cable and watch video online.

See Wired's analysis and graph here:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/time-warner-cab.html

It is too bad that people take for granted that you truly do get what you pay for. TWC is trying to supply its customers with lower rates if they don't use as much bandwidth (isn't that a good thing?) and charge more for people who use a great deal of service. This appears to be the wave of the future, so get used to paying for what you use.

I will change my service. Yeah time warner sucks... They will fail miserably.. whatever they are trying to do.. I am constantly looking for what others are offering. In my view we can get a reasonable speed and unlimited usage from many others providers. Direct TV is very cheap as compared to cable services of time warner. All the users need to come against it. All of us should stop using time warner.

I worked for these crooks for 3 years. They have had 30 some years to improve on the infrastructure. They chose to improve the ivory towers and the linings of a few crooks within. We already paid for the infrastructure. Now they are asking us to pay for fictional service. We need to pass a law and regulate these idiots. They are greedy. Period.

P.S 1 GB is about 3 days worth of basic(well sorta basic) basic today is myspace , music downloads, internet gaming, picture and video sharing and instant messengers. as i was saying 1 gb is basicly 3 days of regular internet usage to charge 2$ more per gb is an insane rip off Verizon is bringing the future and its called FIOS look it up time warner will go bankrupt as soon as it hits the triad (unlimited bandwith @ speeds around 50Mbits/15Mbits for 50/month) and the rates timewarner is charging customers maybe they should go belly up.

An open letter to other ISPs willing to come to Greensboro and save our citizens from TWC:
http://savegso.blogspot.com/

Just pay it they need the money. Multiple million dollar bonuses are hard to pay without rate increases.
From the land of"That can't be right"

I have communicated with Dianne Blackwood, Regional VP at Time Warner about these issues. I called to her attention that the actions of Time Warner are implicitly illegal, based on the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act, as you can see below. Her response was "thanks for your additional comments." I hope people interested in this will contact their elected representatives, and point out this proposed illegal activity of our "public" utility.

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Thank you very much for taking the time to respond and clarify the position taken by Time Warner. I don’t hope to enter a long drawn out debate with you, but I do want to add a bit of clarity to my previous comments.

Initially, I will agree that the usage of bandwidth is increasing dramatically everywhere. I will further agree that some users are more “bandwidth intensive” than others, but all pay the same price. Were Time Warner to offer a substantial discount to the users that have little need of a high throughput, I would agree with the new stated policies. This appears to be the point where we diverge. The smallest cap appears to cost approximately the same as the current uncapped service. This new policy seems clearly designed to increase the expense to most users, as many families will be forced to “upgrade” to maintain their usage patterns long established.

I further disagree that many customers have “control” over the bandwidth used. I call your attention to services like adclick, and thousands of others, that provide unsolicited commercials embedded in every web page we view. Let’s don’t also forget the thousands of graphics-rich spam e-mails we all receive. Additionally, my cable modem is constantly responding to network traffic, 24/7, 365 days a year. I have no power to control this use of what now becomes “my” bandwidth.

Here is the problem in a nutshell. We cannot control, to any great degree, the content that is delivered to us, but we are asked to pay based on that same content. Have you ever wondered why you never get solicitations (telemarketing) on your cell phone? It is illegal, as the solicitors would be using “your” cell minutes to further their goals. This is exactly what Time Warner contemplates, and I suspect also is illegal. Unless there is some way to totally eliminate all content besides that targeted by myself as I browse, the pay-as-you-go plan is a legal failure. Others are free-loading on my payment for bandwidth every time I open a browser window. This is, without a doubt, legally, ethically and morally bankrupt.

The 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act has explicit language that governs the cell-phone situation in part stating “prohibiting marketing or any other service for which the person being called would be charged for the call.” There is no difference whatsoever between that of the cell phone service, were the customer pays by the call, and the cable service, where the customer pays by the byte. Marketing using the paid bandwidth of others is illegal. See: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/tcpa.html With this in mind, I hope Time Warner will reconsider this game-changing concept of capped usage.

FROM USA Today----

BROADBAND: Help for rural areas

The stimulus bill includes $7 billion for broadband deployment in rural markets across the USA.

That high-speed Internet access is counted as "infrastructure" is illuminating in itself, says Gene Kimmelman of Consumers Union.

Under the Bush administration, broadband service was treated as a luxury, he says. The Obama-backed stimulus package, in contrast, "treats Internet communications as an essential service, just like our highways," Kimmelman says.

With that baseline established, Kimmelman says, he expects major public policy shifts to follow, with the goal of making broadband available and affordable to all Americans. Though final language is still being worked out, the $7 billion plan offers "grants," or funding, to companies willing to deploy broadband — wireless or wired — in "underserved" or "unserved" markets.

But there are regulatory strings attached, notes Paul Glenchur of Stanford Group in Washington, D.C.

Companies must offer broadband services in a "non-discriminatory" fashion. That's code for "open access," a politically charged notion that says carriers must treat all Internet services the same.

Likewise, trying to define "underserved" or "unserved" markets could prove challenging, he says.

Why: Satellite-based Internet services already are available in most rural markets. Phone and cable TV companies have also spent billions deploying broadband in hundreds of markets, including rural areas.

The government's plan to essentially subsidize competition in these areas through a grant program "raises a basic question of fairness," Glenchur says.

Kimmelman disagrees. Satellite-based broadband costs around $90 a month, he says, putting it out of reach of many consumers.

By Leslie Cauley

TW, not a real good time to try to rip off your customers even more. You know with the economy thing and all! It's time to open this market to competition. In this day and time we don't need monopoly business's controlling something that has become so vital in people's lives.