Lawmaker Unveils Anti-Metered Billing Law > This bill will never make it thru Congress

In April, when Time Warner Cable in Rochester announced that they would begin overcharging customers based on their bandwidth usage, a group of doctors approached Congressman Massa and informed him that if the proposal was enacted, they would be forced to raise rates on their patients. Time Warner's new program would have raised the cost of their current unlimited internet plan from $50 per month to $150 per month

it's hard to think this (or any legislation mandating how ISPs price services) will make it through a heavily lobbied Congress.

Expect Massa to lose this particular fight, barring some kind of K-Street miracle.

said by S_engineer:

Come on tk, you can't possibly be on the side of TW are you?

said by hayabusa3303:

He has stock in TW whats why he says that.

said by S_engineer:

Come on tk, you can't possibly be on the side of TW are you?

said by fAcEtIOUs:

But I do believe that as a private corporation that TWC should be able to decide on how to price their services. What we don't need is more meddling in the decisions of individual corporations by the government. There is already too much of that now.

said by fAcEtIOUs:

If I was CEO of TWC I wouldn't be pricing the way they planned on doing it. It was a supremely stupid move on their part. Their CEO should be summarily fired. I've posted here before on how I would structure prices.

But I do believe that as a private corporation that TWC should be able to decide on how to price their services. What we don't need is more meddling in the decisions of individual corporations by the government. There is already too much of that now.

said by fAcEtIOUs:

But I do believe that as a private corporation that TWC should be able to decide on how to price their services. What we don't need is more meddling in the decisions of individual corporations by the government. There is already too much of that now.

said by S_engineer:

Come on tk, you can't possibly be on the side of TW are you?

said by fAcEtIOUs:

If you go to his web site, one argument he uses for having this bill is pure BS.

said by fAcEtIOUs:

This bill is populist nonsense by a Congressman peeved at TWC and their metered billing plans.

said by KrK:

And that's bad because....?

Yeah, we know it's not likely to succeed... but it's worth it to at least try.

"Cable providers want to stifle the internet so they can rake in advertiser dollars by keeping consumers from watching video on the Internet. But so long as Americans can't choose which cable channels they want to pay for, I don't think cable operators should be able to determine consumers' monthly internet usage. Additionally, charging based on a bandwidth usage is a flawed model when the cost of usage is totally out of line with the price. Consumers are much better served by plans based on the speed of the connection rather than amount of bandwidth used

said by fAcEtIOUs:

Massa the Sock Puppet.

said by fAcEtIOUs:

LOL. Right - $100 more per month for internet access would cause doctors to raise their patient charges. Who is he kidding. Like they need an excuse to do that anyway.

said by pnh102:

Time Warner could have implemented caps in a manner similar to Comcast, i.e. a very high cap with throttling but no overages. This way, they could make the argument that caps simply are not about the money but are rather about network management.