No justification for Time Warner

[spotslayer]

Bleed every last drop.

http://digg.com/d1oQmb

David

[LinuxMint-4]

Time Warner`s Broadband Cap Plans Draw Lawmaker's Ire
By Roy Mark
2009-04-11

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastruct ... 47/?kc=rss


Time Warner's broadband cap plan may result in federal legislation aimed at unfair tiered price structures from Internet providers. Angered over Time Warner's pricing plans, U.S. Rep. Eric Massa of New York says that's exactly what he has in mind, promising a bill to curb tiers, particularly in areas where a broadband provider owns a monopoly on service.

Time Warner's broadband cap plan may result in federal legislation aimed at unfair tiered price structures from Internet providers. Angered over Time Warner's pricing plans, U.S. Rep. Eric Massa of New York says that's exactly what he has in mind, promising a bill to curb tiers, particularly in areas where a broadband provider owns a monopoly on service.

If Time Warner thought that its hastily revised broadband cap plan to include an unlimited usage tier would appease U.S. Rep. Eric Massa, the cable broadband provider was wrong. Massa, who represents a New York district where Time Warner is planning to roll out its cap plan, said April 10 he is drafting legislation to prohibit unfair tiered price structures from Internet providers.

[spotslayer]

http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm

Email address' for congress. Support Re. Massa.

David

[LinuxMint-4]

A bit more to the story......Now, is vowing to introduce a law banning "charging by usage".


http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/20 ... onth-plan/




"A congressman has vowed to introduce a law banning Internet providers from charging by usage. It follows Time Warner’s announcement that users wanting unlimited downloads will have to pay $150 a month.

Eric Massa says his Broadband Internet Fairness Act would “prohibit unfair tiered price structures.” He argues that firms should not be allowed to exploit local monopolies over broadband service by charging in this way.

According to Massa, Time Warner’s changes – which he says would more than triple the costs for a household wanting unlimited downloads – are also a threat to jobs. He notes that some groups are particularly reliant on heavy downloading, including farmers using GPS equipment to monitor crops and deaf students who communicate via video links.

Meanwhile gamers are also protesting the new pricing scheme. Lara Crigger of Gamers with Jobs notes that her relatively casual gaming use last month, which involved downloading two full-size games and a couple of demos, plus streaming one movie a week, ate up almost 28GB. As 40GB is the largest service available in her area at the moment, that only leaves 12GB for the month for general internet use plus the bandwidth used up by online gaming before she starts paying ‘overage’ charges."

[LinuxMint-4]

There is even more......




Time Warner Broadband Cap Plan Faces Texas Delay
By Roy Mark
2009-04-14

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastruct ... 17/?kc=rss


With Time Warner's broadband pricing proposal taking heavy incoming fire from consumers to Congress, the broadband cable provider decides to delay implementation in San Antonio and Austin by a few months. Time Warner's plan could potentially lead to more than tripling the monthly broadband bills of its customers.

A Time Warner official said April 13 the company plans to delay implementing its controversial broadband pricing plan in Austin and San Antonio until at least October with actual billing pushed into 2010. The cable broadband provider, though, still plans to launch the new pricing scheme in Rochester, N.Y., and Greensboro, N.C., in August.

Prompted by harsh criticism of the plan from consumers to Congress, Gavino Ramos, Time Warner's vice president of communication for South Texas, told the San Antonio Express-News, "What happened as we're continuing to listen was we worked in some of the comments and ideas that got sent to us. We came to the realization, let's do this in October."

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With Time Warner's broadband pricing proposal taking heavy incoming fire from consumers to Congress, the broadband cable provider decides to delay implementation in San Antonio and Austin by a few months. Time Warner's plan could potentially lead to more than tripling the monthly broadband bills of its customers.

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Progress. Please write your congressmen.

David

[Chess]

TimeWarner drops metering plan, at least for the time being:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... ws_ts_head