Topic 'Re: Lack of competition' in forum '' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27294771 en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:59:14 EDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:59:14 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27307738 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27307738 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:19:42 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27296117
And yes, pennies... actually, as sandman says, fractions of a penny. I'm not asking for free, I am asking for reasonably fair. I believe the standard price of a typical connection is what, like 40-50/month? Take $5 off of that and it's 35-45/month for 5GB. I get 5GB using LTE for $50/month (which is a whole different issue). Then $1/GB over, it's absurd and you know it just as well as I do.

You can try to spin it in any direction you want, but I have to believe you are not so unintelligent to think it's not fair. As for network upgrades/maintenance, that costs but they surely aren't running any fiber out to my home. Verizon did that to quite a few homes and they aren't ranting about caps/overages, yet... I don't see TWC making anywhere near that kind of commitment.

I'm happy to pay for my connection and I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount. Even slightly more than reasonable as long as I am getting something close to what I am paying for. Those who are being capped like that... They are NOT getting what they are paying for, they are getting ripped off. Most are getting ripped off. For every person using 200-300GB/month, there are probably 50+ using 5-20GB/month. TWC isn't rewarding those using less, they aren't going to (oh wait... $5off/month... which most will probably end up paying back at least double because they went over 10GB--not understanding how things work). They are going to continue to collect hefty rates from them while they try to make more from those using more.

It has nothing to do with cost vs. usage and EVERYTHING to do with preventing loss of revenue for their TV services. Making money and greed walk a fine line, they past that line a thousand miles back.

Do you work for TWC?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27296117 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:20:19 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27296064
A metered billing plan that may work for some people has a very low connection charge (read $5 or so) and then an affordable cost per gb of use.

A $5 discount is a slap in the face to consumers. Time Warner wants metered billing, but they don't want to reduce the connection price any. "Just pay us more" instead of "Just pay for what you use."
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I never knew how much time I could waste on the Internet before it was so fast!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27296064 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:06:51 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295840
I'd rather my Internet go up than have to deal with ridiculously low caps. Perhaps you like being given the heave-ho in the backside but I don't.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295840 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:46:23 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295804 said by Wilsdom:

Congratulations: you get both

no kiddin, peoples bills will be skyrock at that pricing.., makes dropping your standard tv sub easyer..

5gb they are way out of line... but kinda knew that in 09 when they tried 40 ha]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295804 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:37:12 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295800
The cost to maintain/improve your last-mile connection costs pennies? I dont think I agree. Even if it did, Im pretty sure these corporations exist to make money. They arent providing you a connection pro bono. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295800 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:35:53 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295697 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295697 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:02:25 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295463 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295463 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:44:24 EDT Re: Lack of competition http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Lack-of-competition-27295344 said by ITALIAN926:

Metered billing , or an across-the-board internet price hikes?. Metered billing please.

this post and several others from you scream shill
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