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Time Warner Cable Spinoff March 27
Long awaited deal finally hits next month
Time Warner stated late yesterday that the carrier will be finalizing the spinoff of Time Warner Cable on March 27, after the FCC approved the deal two weeks ago. "Both companies will be better positioned to compete, with capital structures more suited to their respective needs as well as greater operational, financial and strategic flexibility," Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said in a statement. In addition to the spinoff, the Time Warner's board approved a 1-for-3 reverse stock split, which will also go into effect on March 27.
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burgerwars
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What will the cable company be named?

Any ideas?

ReVeLaTeD
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Re: What will the cable company be named?

said by burgerwars:

Any ideas?
RoadRunner Cable? (since their internet's been called RoadRunner for mysterious reasons for years)
zed2608
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Re: What will the cable company be named?

probably will keep the time warner cable name

wifi4milez
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said by ReVeLaTeD:
said by burgerwars:

Any ideas?
RoadRunner Cable? (since their internet's been called RoadRunner for mysterious reasons for years)
I think the name (Roadrunner) was given because it is/was fast compared to the competition...

ReVeLaTeD
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Re: What will the cable company be named?

said by wifi4milez:

said by ReVeLaTeD:
said by burgerwars:

Any ideas?
RoadRunner Cable? (since their internet's been called RoadRunner for mysterious reasons for years)
I think the name (Roadrunner) was given because it is/was fast compared to the competition...
What I mean is that it was never called Time Warner RoadRunner. It was just RoadRunner. It uses a domain having little-to-nothing to do with Time Warner. The association was never there. That's what I mean.

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said by ReVeLaTeD:

RoadRunner Cable? (since their internet's been called RoadRunner for mysterious reasons for years)
I wonder how much Warner Brothers will charge for licensing fees now that TWC will be a separate company...

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Re: What will the cable company be named?

said by RadioDoc:

said by ReVeLaTeD:

RoadRunner Cable? (since their internet's been called RoadRunner for mysterious reasons for years)
I wonder how much Warner Brothers will charge for licensing fees now that TWC will be a separate company...
If TWC is smart, they will drop that name. It's stupid now.

wifi4milez
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Re: What will the cable company be named?

said by ReVeLaTeD:
said by RadioDoc:
said by ReVeLaTeD:

RoadRunner Cable? (since their internet's been called RoadRunner for mysterious reasons for years)
I wonder how much Warner Brothers will charge for licensing fees now that TWC will be a separate company...
If TWC is smart, they will drop that name. It's stupid now.
Their license to use the name will expire within the next 12 months, unless of course its scheduled to end sooner and we dont know about it yet.

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said by burgerwars:

Any ideas?
Acme Cable Company...beep beep!

Matt3
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said by burgerwars:

Any ideas?
Time Warner Cable. They're just separating it on the books from Time Warner, Inc.

Combat Chuck
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Time Waconnection reset by host.
88615298 (banned)
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40 GB Cap Cable Company
patcat88
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Re: What will the cable company be named?

"We will fix our network with no extra budget expenditures by chasing away all customers with problems to FIOS."

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Call it losing money by the truckload.

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and on March 28

price increases on the way.
person951
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Re: and on March 28

hopefully speed increases too but i doubt it
tmc8080
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aggregate data caps..

I can't wait until they begin instituting some of the draconian data caps a-la comcast in the NY Metro markets.. they will see their broadband subscribership TANK, BIGTIME!

If not, I will personally call each and every one and tell them what a fool they are for staying with Time Warner! Then slap them silly!

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said by tmc8080:

I can't wait until they begin instituting some of the draconian data caps a-la comcast in the NY Metro markets.. they will see their broadband subscribership TANK, BIGTIME!

If not, I will personally call each and every one and tell them what a fool they are for staying with Time Warner! Then slap them silly!
Since there is little competition, you have only 2 options. Cancel TWC (and have no TV/Internet) or stay with them no matter how bad they are screwing you over. If you can get FIOS, then you can go to that. In NYC you either get TWC or CV (Cablevision). CV gives you much more for your money but that means nothing if you are in TWC's Cable Monopoly footprint.
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ever seeing eye logo

So when is TWC getting rid of their Masonic ever seeing eye? I'm shocked that AT&T was caught NSA spying when TWC has been the one really doing it all along, they even tell you.

TWC_Employee

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It's not an "Ever seeing eye".

It's an eye and an ear... As in Listen and Watch your tv.
patcat88
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Re: ever seeing eye logo

Then it must be the Eye of Horus. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi ··· ofra.png

DividendsRule

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$10/share dividend for TW Inc. stock holders

Woohoo... a $10 per Time Warner Inc. share dividend means I'll get a few hundred bucks coming my way!

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Re: $10/share dividend for TW Inc. stock holders

said by DividendsRule :

Woohoo... a $10 per Time Warner Inc. share dividend means I'll get a few hundred bucks coming my way!
Ummm.... better check again. The dividend is for TWC stock holders not TW Inc.

Irun Man
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Road Runner branding

... has been used by cable systems other than TWC for over a decade. Currently it's also used by Brighthouse and Insight.

It was also used by the former MediaOne cable company, until their acquisition by AT&T Broadband a few years back.
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Re: Road Runner branding

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... has been used by cable systems other than TWC for over a decade. Currently it's also used by Brighthouse and Insight.

It was also used by the former MediaOne cable company, until their acquisition by AT&T Broadband a few years back.
And Time Warner gives new meaning to running the brand into the ground!

Authority
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And Time Warner gives new meaning to running the brand into the ground!
I have to agree... amazingly dysfunctional in so many ways. They're behind the technology curve in rolling out network upgrades like DOCSIS 3.0, their speeds are the lowest, their bandwidth caps are the lowest, their pricing is the highest, their service is the worst according to JD Powers. They're not doing one thing wrong, they're doing almost everything wrong.

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Re: Road Runner branding

The only thing I dont get is .. Aol is timewarner timewarner is new line cinemas and a few other big name movie things why is it everyone thinks time warner doesnt have money?

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said by Authority See ProfileI have to agree... amazingly dysfunctional in so many ways. They're behind the technology curve in rolling out network upgrades like DOCSIS 3.0, their speeds are the lowest, their bandwidth caps are the lowest, their pricing is the highest, their service is the worst according to JD Powers. They're not doing one thing wrong, they're doing almost everything wrong.
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As always, long on rhetoric and short on facts.

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Re: Road Runner branding

Are you still trolling here? Really?

Search "Time Warner" on Twitter... they don't have three full time PR people working Twitter because they're doing well. Or ask their CEO?

»www.homemediamagazine.co ··· ry-14751

By the way I had a lot of facts in my post! The ONLY major provider to not have DOCSIS 3.0 implemented. The lowest caps 40gb. The lowest speed tiers of major providers. The lowest rating in JD Powers of all national cable companies (just like Adelphia had). What more facts you want?

hobgoblin
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Yes I am still here, someone needs to point out the utter baloney you post!

A presence on Twitter hardly means that a company is in the toilet, many would feel that its actually a positive move.

The economy is indeed taking some chunks out of many businesses, when houses are being repossessed in their thousands its clear that cable would suffer.

Docsis 3 ....ok. Comcast actually are the only company with any 3 presence other providers are playing around with it

Caps? Oh you mean the small trial in a little town in Texas, I remember that.

Speeds? Yeah this looks horrible?



Lowest rating?

»/r0/do ··· tion.JPG

Nuff said.

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Re: Road Runner branding

i have to admit pwning you is a guilty pleasure because it's so easy.
said by hobgoblin:

A presence on Twitter hardly means that a company is in the toilet, many would feel that its actually a positive move.
As is often the case, you fail to follow directions. I said SEARCH "Time Warner" on Twitter:

»search.twitter.com/searc ··· er+cable

You will see gazillions of unhappy customers, MORE than other carriers (I counted).
said by hobgoblin:

Docsis 3 ....ok. Comcast actually are the only company with any 3 presence other providers are playing around with it
Wrong again, Charter, Cox, and RCN, are all on rolling it out already while "Time Warner Cable has yet to solidify their DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade plans"...

»www.telegeography.com/cu ··· ail=html

»Cox: Fully Upgraded To 1Ghz By 2011 [59] comments

»money.cnn.com/news/newsf ··· 2835.htm
said by hobgoblin:

Caps? Oh you mean the small trial in a little town in Texas, I remember that.
Yes, the trial they're rolling out nation wide... don't you read the news? Note they're the LOWEST caps of all major providers.

»www.afterdawn.com/news/a ··· 6884.cfm

»Time Warner Cable Will Increase Caps [89] comments
said by hobgoblin:

Speeds? Yeah this looks horrible?
It DOES look horrible. The fastest tier from Comcast is 4X faster than the fastest tier from Time Warner. That's horrible to me, and shows they're just not keeping up.
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Lowest rating?
Yup! According to DSLR anyway as of 2/09:

»FiOSTV Tops In Satisfaction Survey [26] comments
said by hobgoblin:

Nuff said.
Indeed... subs dropping faster than peers (fact), behind peers in implementing new technology (fact), lowest customer satisfaction (fact), you tell me what they're doing RIGHT?

AuthorityOnWHAT
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Re: Road Runner branding

said by Authority:

you tell me what they're doing RIGHT?
Not having YOU as a customer.

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said by Authority:

You will see gazillions of unhappy customers, MORE than other carriers (I counted).
Do you really expect anything less when multiple outages over the last couple weeks caused by hackers are affecting large parts of their internet service area?

»help.rr.com/HMSFaqs/e_ha ··· cks.aspx
said by Authority:

Charter, Cox, and RCN, are all on rolling it out already while "Time Warner Cable has yet to solidify their DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade plans"...
TWC hasn't announced their D3 plans, but meanwhile TWC has rolled out 100 mbps symmetric residential service in an area and is exploring residential fiber to the home for future services:

»/speak ··· SXNsYW5k
»www.lightreading.com/doc ··· d=171718
said by Authority:

Yes, the trial they're rolling out nation wide... don't you read the news? Note they're the LOWEST caps of all major providers.

»www.afterdawn.com/news/a ··· 6884.cfm

»Time Warner Cable Will Increase Caps [89] comments
Can you show us the part where it's NATIONWIDE? Name the cities outside of Beaumont, TX at least.

Psst... TWC announced they were changing the limits and prices on the caps according to your own link.

BTW, AT&T has caps too and they're not much higher than what TWC did in the Beaumont trial:
»More Specifics On AT&T's Cap Plans [138] comments

Even their latest, cutting edge product Uverse has caps.
said by Authority:

The fastest tier from Comcast is 4X faster than the fastest tier from Time Warner. That's horrible to me, and shows they're just not keeping up.
Yet you're on a 6 mbps service from AT&T... You say it's so horrible that TWCs speeds are so "slow", yet you're paying for slower. Who's not keeping up again?
said by Authority:

Yup! According to DSLR anyway as of 2/09:

»FiOSTV Tops In Satisfaction Survey [26] comments
Actually your link is from a paid research firm, who mentioned TWC last in their short summary trying to get people to buy the whole report. It surveyed 842 people.

Both ongoing ratings and as of TODAY Roadrunner outranks many of the other cable ISPs actually here on DSLR, higher than Cox, Comcast, Brensan, Charter, RCN, and many others:
»www2.dslreports.com/gbu

DSLR rankings have more people participating too.
said by Authority:

Indeed... subs dropping faster than peers (fact),
Wrong, again according to one of your own links. Comcast lost half a million vs TWCs 119 thousand basic video subscriber losses.

BTW, if you look at TWCs quarterly report 78 thousand of those 119 lost were actually sold off to another company. Meanwhile TWC also GAINED 44 thousand digital video subscribers, 124 thousand high speed internet subscribers and 130 thousand phone subscribers. So overall TWC gained customers last quarter.

»ir.timewarnercable.com/c ··· ease.pdf
said by Authority:

behind peers in implementing new technology (fact),
Wrong. Fiber to the home, SDV, tru2way, CallerID on TV, StartOver, Clearwire partnership, etc.

The FCC actually fined TWC for pushing ahead too fast on some of the technology being rolled out.
»www.cedmagazine.com/FCC- ··· Cox.aspx
said by Authority:

lowest customer satisfaction (fact),
Wrong. Check DSLRs Good, Bad, Ugly page.
said by Authority:

you tell me what they're doing RIGHT?
Faster speeds than AT&T.

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Roadrunner

Roadrunner is a separate company that provides the content to the TWC website. They do it for other cable companies as was mentioned in another post.

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Road Runner

No one seemed to realize that Time Warner owns the rights to the Looney Tunes Characters. Roadrunner being one of them and an example of speed!!
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Company Formerly Known As Time Warner Cable

They better add some more HD channels soon.

unity40
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Wrong. The spin off date is March 12.

Not March 27 -