Unfortunately they learned the wrong thing.
Time Warner Cable had said in January that it was planning to conduct the trial in Beaumont, but did not give any details. On Monday, Leddy said its tiers will range from $29.95 a month for relatively slow service at 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for fast downloads at 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Those prices cover the Internet portion of subscription bundles that include video or phone services. Both downloads and uploads will count toward the monthly cap.
Dial-ups learned that nobody wanted data limits, when will Slime Warner?
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The problem is 1)they are doing it backwards and 2)this will be unpopulare because it’s worse than what’s currently available. It should be X per month base + Y per month for a peak speed + Z * bits used per month. That’s basically how any tiered utility works, and most consumers seem amenable to this once the technical infeasability of unlimited data forever are explained.
As for why it’s worse than what’s currently available? Well, that’s just because they can.
How did that happen? Government granted monopoly, of course. Anyone who thinks that DSL, which offers speed about an order of magnitude slower, is offering the same service needs a swift cranial application of the clue bat.
I doubt this is true. Unlimited data - well, actually, all the data you can eat, which isn’t the same thing as unlimited data - is going to be regarded in the same way that unlimited air - or, rather, all the air you need - is today.
Around here both are currently 5Mbs and my DSL doesn’t slow down when my neighbor plays WOW. The DSL also doesn’t cut my downloads off. The only drawback is some of the online servers are slower and cable has that same problem.
Where I live, it’s RoadRunner or dialup. Time Warner has no competition and no effective regulation, so they can do whatever they please.
I’d sure like to know why they can offer guaranteed 8MBs DSL service in Japan for $45 a month and yet the US services whine about the impossibility of anything remotely close here. What happed to all that excess bandwidth capacity they supposedly built out during the dot-com years?
This whole thing stinks, and turning it into what Scott Adams accurately calls a “confuseopoly” is just…wonderful. I switched my cellphone to “pay as you go” a long time ago because figuring out the 35,567 different “plans” offered would baffle Roger Penrose. My AT&T landline went to Vonage for the same reason.
And yet they think we want more of the same. What a bunch of clueless dipshits.
In some areas you can get 10Mbs. Of course all I can get is 5. Note they have stand alone and bundle pricing. Recheck the providers in your area.