Core0000Premium
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Somerset, KY Reviews:
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| "This is not... ...Something were doing to make money."
Technically she/he is correct... because, they're a business, not the government, so they can't "make(read:print)" money; but I'd bet money there doing this to 'Earn' some money.
Anyways, good thing I was wearing my boots before I read this article.. because it got deep real quick.
I am really curious why all this metered billing on broadband has started up. I would really like to know the reason. It's like some horrible disease has started to spread.
I can assume a lot of things.. but that doesn't make them right.
I would also like to know why these companies think there offering better service.. by forcing metered billing down your throat at huge mark ups? Maybe this is because of union workers keep asking for pay raises and this is the only way Time Warner can comply.
But we know what happened to the Auto Industry in America.. Same thing could happen in other areas as well I'd imagine.
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| said by Core0000: I am really curious why all this metered billing on broadband has started up........ Maybe this is because of union workers keep asking for pay raises.......... Ding Ding Ding a winner, look at what 125,000 of the AT&T workers want. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
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said by Core0000:I am really curious why all this metered billing on broadband has started up. Three words: Video via Broadband.
It's beginning now... you can get streaming movies; so you no longer need Premium movie channels. Other services like Hulu are giving you regular TV shows.
So, soon, if nothing was done, you could turn off your Cable TV or pay TV service. (Even the Telco based Broadband providers are moving into the Pay TV market---- example, Verizon with FIOS TV and AT&T with U-Verse, for example.) So now all the big players in the US market have a vested interest in protecting PayTV revenue and blocking third party Internet sites from streaming video content.
So as the execs figured out that third party internet companies are threatening to force them to compete for their formerly captive audiences, and that people could actually turn off their Pay TV services, you see the sudden rise of "We Must Have Metered Broadband" in order "To be fair"...
They know with low caps and high overage fees they can nip this competition in the bud. People won't be able to afford to download movies and TV via their broadband, now, so they'll have no choice but 1) Give up on TV altogether or just use OTA 2) turn back to pay TV options for video entertainment.
And the bonus is they can make even more profit on the overage charges.... So it's Win/Win/Win for them and Lose/Lose/Lose for the consumer.
This is the true reason and the only reason we've seen this massive, recent, hard push for caps and overage charges.
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
·AT&T DSL Service
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Yeah, all those UNION Cable Techs.  Most of TWC and cable companies are employees and sub contrators... There's some Union employees, but not that many.
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Core0000Premium
join:2008-05-04
Somerset, KY Reviews:
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said by KrK:said by Core0000:I am really curious why all this metered billing on broadband has started up. Three words: Video via Broadband. It's beginning now... you can get streaming movies; so you no longer need Premium movie channels. Other services like Hulu are giving you regular TV shows. So, soon, if nothing was done, you could turn off your Cable TV or pay TV service. (Even the Telco based Broadband providers are moving into the Pay TV market---- example, Verizon with FIOS TV and AT&T with U-Verse, for example.) So now all the big players in the US market have a vested interest in protecting PayTV revenue and blocking third party Internet sites from streaming video content. So as the execs figured out that third party internet companies are threatening to force them to compete for their formerly captive audiences, and that people could Actually off their Pay TV services, you see the sudden rise of "We Must Have Metered Broadband" in order "To be fair"... They know with low caps and high overage fees they can nip this competition in the bud. People won't be able to afford to download movies and TV via their broadband, now, so they'll have no choice but 1) Give up on TV altogether or just use OTA 2) turn back to pay TV options for video entertainment. And the bonus is they can make even more profit on the overage charges.... So it's Win/Win/Win for them and Lose/Lose/Lose for the consumer. This is the true reason and the only reason we've seen this massive, recent, hard push for caps and overage charges. Sounds logical to me. Thanks for the reply. |
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said by KrK:Yeah, all those UNION Cable Techs. Most of TWC and cable companies are employees and sub contrators... There's some Union employees, but not that many. This has nothing to do with the CWA and everything to do with "making more money." It is what it is dude and that extra money is for the never ending union demands.
Autoworkers ring a bell.
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
·AT&T DSL Service
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said by Core0000:Sounds logical to me. Thanks for the reply. Yeah, thank you. If you always remember a business's main goal is to make money, and that it only gives you what you want as a MEANS to it's goal of making more money... well, it becomes clearer. "Follow the money" as they say... They will say things that sound nice (For example: We want competition) but if it goes against the goal of "making more money" then it's really a false claim.
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