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| | I left Time Warner due to... I was with Time Warner Roadrunner since 1999 when it became available in the San Fernando Valley North End.. I loved the service, had very little trouble. Then I hear Leo Laporte talk about how Time Warner wants to put caps on our bandwidth per month I immediatly called a few ISP's and found DSLextreme, im happy with it, im happy with the consistancy and the price and the fact that I don't feel disgusted when im using dslextreme as i was with time warner after hearing about what they were "thinking" of doing. I love dsl, yeah its slower, but heres the deal, it seems more consistant with throughput on downloads , torrents etc... unlike with roadrunner, where it was sooo slow yet I had 20-30 mbps, im downloading faster with 6mbps dsl than 20-27mbps cable, imagine that....P.s. the bandwidth caps would have affected me because I stream alot of video, classic tv, movies, public domain on justin.tv and others, so i do use alot of upload/down per month... ..
Just my input..
Randy
CHatsworth, Ca | |
|  | | Re: I left Time Warner due to... And what happens if they end up pulling your POTS line and moving you to FTTH? You're screwed and go to ATT withOUT the option of DSLX. Sucks to use a reseller huh? | |
| | | | Re: I left Time Warner due to... That is a problem with AT&T, not the reseller. It is for just such predatory practices AT&T ought to be SMACKED down. And, by that, I mean totally run out of the business by any means necessary. AT&T is the biggest impediment to advancing technology and provision of competitive services in the U.S., bar none. Well, except for, perhaps, the entertainment industry. | |
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| Re: I left Time Warner due to... said by ross:That is a problem with AT&T, not the reseller. It is for just such predatory practices AT&T ought to be SMACKED down. And, by that, I mean totally run out of the business by any means necessary. AT&T is the biggest impediment to advancing technology and provision of competitive services in the U.S., bar none. Well, except for, perhaps, the entertainment industry. AT&T has the unenviable task of picking up the bad behavior where MCI-Worldcom left off, except they were literally pushed, tempted to acquire last mile assets as a result of the long distance calling wars. AT&T is in new territory having to compete against Comcast in much of it's bought, inherited footprint. Now that Verizon jumped first to jettison bad ROI's, they just made a poison pill for AT&T to do the same, or cable-cos for that matter. Instead the answer becomes metered billing.
In a world where (using that famous movie voice) companies are free to charge whatever they want, they are free to manipulate markets to their will. The tech industry has had it's share of gouging and poor consumer relations... Microsoft, Intel, and Memory Makers (remember RamBus memory), or how about Sony's Blue Ray? We've not even seen a proposal for a *reasonable* capped plan.. such as 250gb+ monthly cap for 50% off the unlimited rates. If plans were designed for lite users as they said it would not be a forced down the entire footprint/subscribership's throat kind of deal as Comcast & possibly Time Warner were considering. We've let these companies dig, burrow, and tear up our public & private property to deploy their network & we have a vested interest in seeing FAIR access for all consumers at affordable rates & terms of service. If it should come to legislation, so be it...
no doubt the cablecos will want their say too & try to add a provision to add wireless broadband to the mix so we don't see $5k broadband access bills in the news, which in reality shouldn't be.. there should be a reasonable overage such as doubling your monthly rate before the service is cut & the customer has to call to understand they they're going over by a wide margin before the bill cranks up like an A/C on a 120 degree day. | |
| | | | | | Re: I left Time Warner due to... said by tmc8080:said by ross:That is a problem with AT&T, not the reseller. It is for just such predatory practices AT&T ought to be SMACKED down. And, by that, I mean totally run out of the business by any means necessary. AT&T is the biggest impediment to advancing technology and provision of competitive services in the U.S., bar none. Well, except for, perhaps, the entertainment industry. AT&T has the unenviable task of picking up the bad behavior where MCI-Worldcom left off, except they were literally pushed, tempted to acquire last mile assets as a result of the long distance calling wars. AT&T is in new territory having to compete against Comcast in much of it's bought, inherited footprint. Now that Verizon jumped first to jettison bad ROI's, they just made a poison pill for AT&T to do the same, or cable-cos for that matter. Instead the answer becomes metered billing. In a world where (using that famous movie voice) companies are free to charge whatever they want, they are free to manipulate markets to their will. The tech industry has had it's share of gouging and poor consumer relations... Microsoft, Intel, and Memory Makers (remember RamBus memory), or how about Sony's Blue Ray? We've not even seen a proposal for a *reasonable* capped plan.. such as 250gb+ monthly cap for 50% off the unlimited rates. If plans were designed for lite users as they said it would not be a forced down the entire footprint/subscribership's throat kind of deal as Comcast & possibly Time Warner were considering. We've let these companies dig, burrow, and tear up our public & private property to deploy their network & we have a vested interest in seeing FAIR access for all consumers at affordable rates & terms of service. If it should come to legislation, so be it... no doubt the cablecos will want their say too & try to add a provision to add wireless broadband to the mix so we don't see $5k broadband access bills in the news, which in reality shouldn't be.. there should be a reasonable overage such as doubling your monthly rate before the service is cut & the customer has to call to understand they they're going over by a wide margin before the bill cranks up like an A/C on a 120 degree day. Hard to decipher your point, presuming you even had one. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR OVERAGE CHARGES, WHATSOEVER! THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR METERED BILLING, PERIOD!
AT&T, TWC are prime examples of unbridled, unregulated predacious greed machines hellbent on providing the least amount of service for the most egregious price. These companies are intent on not investing in upgrades to their infrastructure for anything except privacy invasive devices to facilitate the commoditizing and monetizing the personal information, habits and preferences of their captive customer base, or to supply an ever more paranoid governmental and law enforcement community with unwarranted access to private communications, as well as monetizing the delivery of content provided by themselves and/or others.
No consideration of reasonable rate of return, or falling cost of delivery of service is evident in their pricing structure. Pricing is solely based on what contrived obfuscation and a captive/forced market can extort from powerless customers. Their repudiation and rejection of the principles of good faith and fair dealing, and the evisceration of customer's rights is loathsomely self-evident and emblematic of their corporate philosophy. | |
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| No it would not be a problem for ATT they're given the right to kill those resellers when and if they deploy a next generation network in any area. If U-Verse DSL or U-Verse FTTH is available to home and only those you can NOT get a reseller to get the higher speeds. Those speeds are only available from ATT directly. If you live in the FTTH areas resellers are a thing of the past. | |
| | | | | | Re: I left Time Warner due to... said by hottboiinnc:No it would not be a problem for ATT they're given the right to kill those resellers when and if they deploy a next generation network in any area. If U-Verse DSL or U-Verse FTTH is available to home and only those you can NOT get a reseller to get the higher speeds. Those speeds are only available from ATT directly. If you live in the FTTH areas resellers are a thing of the past. Thanks for helping to make my point re AT&T in particular. AT&T is the problem. Period. Monopoly plus greed equals AT&T business plan. Fuck AT&T! | |
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