Time Warner Cable and other ISPs are preparing to move to usage-based pricing for their Internet access, in the latest ploy to squeeze every last cent from consumers.
One analyst, Craig Moffett, of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. says he predicts that either Time Warner, Cox or Charter will institute the pricing model in 2012.
So far, there have been no official moves to usage-based pricing ... [ read the full article ]
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The usage cap was already addressed with speed caps... Like the other guy said, if data caps are introduced, they better cut the speed caps. I wouldn't be surprised if a class action suit is started if data caps go up and people are still only getting 80% at most of their speed bracket. And it's not a technology limitation in most cases, speed is limited at the hub based on a virtual switch tech support could flip in no time.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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Originally posted by EzCeazy: If they are going to incorporate data caps, then they should remove the speed caps. That should be fair.
LoL...fair...from a Monopoly? I guarantee these policies will only be enforced in areas where there is no competition, or where the competition is doing the same thing. At my last place we only had Bright House...it was $95 a month for 15mbps/1mbps internet with no TV. I move less than 3 miles away into a neighborhood with FiOS and Bright House, and bright house is offering 30mbps/3mbps service for $40 a month, plus the first three months free. I checked with one of my friends that still lives in the same apartments I moved from, and a full year later bright house is still charging the same amount for the same service...and actual speeds are far lower than they were when I left.
Originally posted by Semperfipal: Another nail in the coffin for consumers in the name of corporate greed. If internet access gets to expensive, I guess its back to snail mail, going to the library, renting DVD/Bluray movies, installing a TV antenna on the roof, listening to the radio, reading the paper, etc. Going back to a more simple life may not be so bad.
Could be a case for history repeating itself. We could use those little yellow wood things on a piece of paper again.
Originally posted by DVDBack23: Just so everyone knows, I didn't add it to the article but ISP margins on broadband range from 92-99 percent. Yep.
Which makes them even bigger jagoffs for milking even more cash from us without merit. Just because they "can" charge more.......doesn't mean they should.
Originally posted by DVDBack23: Just so everyone knows, I didn't add it to the article but ISP margins on broadband range from 92-99 percent. Yep.
When you say margins, just what do you mean? Is it their cost above operating costs, after-tax profit margins, or what?
Most computer manufacturers, for example, usually sell retail at about twice what their material costs are. It's the only way they can make a profit.
Referring people to Time Warner's latest quarterly earnings report means nothing. Most earnings reports break down margins at the various levels I described above. How about a link with a referral to an actual line in their statement?
