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| RoadRunner The people on here have no clue what they're talking about. I hope you all know RoadRunner and TWC have TWO different AUPes and TOSes for the customers. TWC has one as the operator who is a binding agreement between the customer and them. Then RoadRunner--the ISP has one between the Customer and them.
YOU AGREE TO BOTH! RoadRunner has had the usage limit in their TOS and AUP for at least 4 years now. And now you're having problems. This site never stops amazing me.
By the way, If you don't like what their doing to THEIR NETWORK build your own. |
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| It's company's like Time Warner that convince people to vote Democrat and in turn give the Gov't reasons to Nationalize them. With the more and more connected nature of our society Internet connectivity has become a necessity, it's time that the Gov't made them into utilities and regulated them to the hilt. There is no excuse for this behavior especially in cases where communities do bond together and build their own networks, then the company's turn around and lobby to get the said networks shut down. Profits be damned, if you have a monopoly over an area you should be playing nice, and not growing your bottom line (Socialism? Maybe but somethings are too important to be left to laissez faire capitalism). |
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| Don't like it build your own ISP and do what you want. If you don't like TWC or RR don't use them and STFU. |
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| Well first of all don't tell me STFU you don't even know me, you also give a bad name to people from Toledo, which is where I was born. How about the government takes back all the money given to the ISP's to serve smaller communities and does it itself, TW, Comcast, VZ, all those guys just need to give that money back? ISP's were happy to commoditize Internet Access, and now are upset that people have innovated to use it. |
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said by ZachAttack:It's company's like Time Warner that convince people to vote Democrat and in turn give the Gov't reasons to Nationalize them. With the more and more connected nature of our society Internet connectivity has become a necessity, it's time that the Gov't made them into utilities and regulated them to the hilt. Obviously, you weren't around in the days of 100% regulated networks.
Like to pay $3.00 for a 3-minute call to NYC? How about $.25/minute to call one mile away?
Like to have no choice at all?
Like to pay $1 extra for a "color" phone every month?
How about regulated OTA TV only? Six channels. Yay.
While we're at it, want to wait in line for four hours to buy five gallons of gas, on an "odd" or "even" day only?
None of my government utilities have lowered their prices or improved their service offerings in the past 10 years. Instead, they've doubled their prices and retarded their service.
In the same period the broadband industry and cellular telephone companies have more than doubled the value delivered, by most any measure.
Competition functions on greed. Greed motivates investors to provide capital and then lose money - the consumer gets the benefit. Regulation (other than for safety issues) results in sloth and props up special bureaucratic and party interests. You'll end up paying a lot more for service that never evolves.
I don't like the nature of anti-competitive tricks pulled by cableco, or the old Ma Bell philosophy that lurks in Texas, but even without competitive local dialtone, market forces have worked to keep the players in check.
If you want to provide a non-profit broadband service, go ahead an organize a coop in your city, and see how far you get; if you're in my town, I'll join your effort. But please, keep your hands off the private companies that are actually delivering.
And lastly, internet connectivity is not a necessity.
You can't demonstrate one application that makes it so. |
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