saber11
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1 edit | [TWC] Pricing model changing soon
Just found out yesterday, that RR will soon be changing their pricing model.
They will begin moving away from "all you can eat" to a pay per byte system. They are calling it "Consumption based billing"
This system will begin be tested in Beaumont, TX in Quarter 1 and apply only to New customers, eventually all customers will be included in the new scheme.
There will be a cap, but I have not heard what that will be and how generous or limited it will be.
They are working on a website for users to be able to track usage.
This smells like the same thing that they did a couple years ago, but at that time they didn't give users any way to track usage.
Keep you eyes open folks
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69742511
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Costa Mesa, CA | I hope you are joking. |
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saber11
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kshymkiw
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Columbus, OH | reply to saber11
Where did you hear this from? |
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CJ
join:2000-07-18
USA | reply to saber11
I have been contemplating going to satellite TV and DSL here lately. This is just helping me make my decision I guess. Price is my other motivating factor. |
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keiluko4
join:2008-01-12
Garden Grove, CA | reply to saber11
highly doubt it |
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69742511
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Costa Mesa, CA | reply to saber11
Provide sources then. Completely 100% hearsay until I see otherwise. |
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keiluko4
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Garden Grove, CA | i dont think they would do that, they would lose so many customers that way. |
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PayPerByte
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saber11
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1 edit | reply to kshymkiw
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69742511
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Costa Mesa, CA | Man you better be joking. If they do that I'm either moving to where I can get FiOS; or going to (much) slower DSHell. I use a lot of bandwidth (forced to - I run 4 websites); so cable is my best option. |
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said by saber11  :I use to be a Tier III tech in western ohio, I got an email from someone in the RNOC... Which is in Columbus. I suspect that kshymkiw works there so.... |
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katgoomee
join:2002-01-01
Ashtabula, OH | reply to kshymkiw
If true, it leads me to believe they want to drag in some more dialup people. RR Lite then below would be "pay per use". I doubt this is across the board tier's.
Thanks for sharing though.
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02 | reply to saber11
Would love to see some confirmation from actual employees on this (contact me anonymously if you'd like).... |
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saber11
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I would really like to hear from someone in the Beaumont division. All I know is what I posted
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1 edit | reply to saber11
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Also new speed tiers by 3rd quarter.
This alone makes this whole thing suspect. Time Warner has no consistency across its markets in terms of speed tiers, so "new speed tiers by 3rd qarter" makes no sense, unless it is in reference to a single market. |
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kba4
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ask your friend to be more specific, and if possible, provide a link or copy from his mail. I agree with katgoomee - the various speed-tiers will be subject to this type of billing to encourage moving to a higher one. And if- if this is true, then I'd expect that those of us on Turbo-RR will not be affected, as we are paying for the best of the best, and at up to $60 or even more in some markets, that's an enormous profit margin for TW. considering that one can't get more than 1Mbps or so (I'm at 768Kb) even if they pay more, bill-by-the-byte will sink RR in no time.
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1 edit | This will never happen in nyc. RR has been doing such a bad job in nyc that they know people would switch as soon as they turn the service on. People would switch to verizon dsl, which inturn will only speed up fios deployment since verizon knows that will have instant switchers. |
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Nobody at TWC I've spoken to can support this yet.
On top of that it's highly unlikely Time Warner/Roadrunner would want to be the first ISP to willfully accept the consumer backlash from changing pricing models from flat rate to metered billing.
That went over like a lead balloon in Australia. Maybe caps and overages someday, but a wholesale change to metered billing just doesn't sound likely. |
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tiger72
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I'm also going to go ahead and say "yeah right" to this. Comcast and ATT I can expect by-the-byte billing from, but TW seems to be the only ISP which *doesn't* send angry letters out to users who use a lot of bandwidth. By-the-byte would be coming out of left field. I could see this as being a way to hook in dialup customers on some sub $20/mo plan, but it would do little to increase profits, and may even create losses thanks to consumer choice and anger.
I also would like to see hard evidence of this.
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