banditws6Shrinking Time and Distance Premium Member join:2001-08-18 Frisco, TX
29 recommendations |
Are you serious?They would actually downgrade me from 200/20 to 100/5 and make me pay more money? You can't be serious, can you? We just got Maxx here last year and I suffered through years of promotionless high pricing and poor value from TWC for it. Charter can get F'ed.
AT&T is rolling out Gigapower in my neighborhood and I swore I would never switch to those clowns, but if Charter pulls this crap, I'm going over to the Death Star. |
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Hall MVM join:2000-04-28 Germantown, OH
21 recommendations |
Hall
MVM
2016-Aug-10 10:14 pm
Gov't merger approvalRemember folks, the gov't was only going to allow this merger if it would benefit consumers. It's a shame that just weeks later, they won't hold Charter to the deal ! |
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15 recommendations |
A Step In The Wrong Direction!The thing that surprised me most about this is that they may migrate/downgrade already established Maxx markets to a top speed 100Mbps for 100 dollars! What!!!! Rutledge is an A__hole. This merger sucks, bring back TWC! |
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KoRnGtL15 Premium Member join:2007-01-04 Grants Pass, OR
12 recommendations |
Upgrades being downgradedWonder how those 300mb users feel dropping to 100mb/5mb. They are going to be furious. They just stuck it to all TWC customers. Now only 2 tier choices with high pricing. Welcome to Charter. |
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Bye bye Time WarnerI will now be taking my business over to wow as the offer download speeds up to 600Mbps in my neck of the woods. Once again, Capitalism screws over the customer. |
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syslock Premium Member join:2007-02-03 La La Land
12 recommendations |
syslock
Premium Member
2016-Aug-10 8:29 pm
Going BackwardsCharters exec staff are very old fashion. No forward thinking. All the TW IT talent that telecommutes, are about gone. Its meat in the seat in the office or your out of there. This is not a company looking to push the cutting edge and advance. |
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10 recommendations |
Translation from marketing speakSince Altice has purchased us, we have realized we are not raping the customers enough. That is going to change. We are now offering lower speeds + higher prices + worse support, just because 'we can'. Guess what sheeple, there's a new sheriff in town, and he's going to make you pay and pay, and then pay some more. Expect a plethora of new hidden fees, lower caps, longer install times, and overall a far worse experience. Workers can expect to be laid off and outsourced to india, because we can pay them $12.00 a day instead of $12.00 an hour. That means more profit for us, less satisfaction for you. Welcome to monopoly. |
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9 recommendations |
My money will be walking...Nothing like a downgrade... We were thinking about possibly staying with Charter, but with Google Fiber trenching just down the street in my neighborhood, Charter will be losing us as a customer when Google Fiber is available. |
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9 recommendations |
Now it is expensive internet or NONE at all from Charter.At least TWC offered value oriented tiers for customers that didn't need a lot of speed and have budgets to keep. Now you get expensive 60/4 service or you don't get service from Charter at all. I chose not to pay Charter for faster speeds I don't need, now instead of them getting a reasonable amount of money from me they get NONE at all. How's that working out for you Tom Rutledge, I am not the only one that told you to take your one tier/price fits all and stick it where the sun don't shine. |
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trparky Premium Member join:2000-05-24 Cleveland, OH ·AT&T U-Verse
6 recommendations |
trparky
Premium Member
2016-Aug-10 6:38 pm
Really all I want is...To be honest, I don't give a crap about download speeds in excess of 100 Mbps. 50 Mbps is more than enough for me.
What I want is more upload! 5 Mbps is not nearly enough!
Now if they provided more upload with their 50 Mbps plan it would be a whole lot better. |
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Un upgraded users can complainby downgrading to lower tiers while they last. |
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6 recommendations |
Anon86887
Anon
2016-Aug-11 9:00 am
Everyday Low Price! |
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(Software) Sophos UTM Home Edition Ruckus R310
6 recommendations |
My Money will also...oh yeah... I don't have other options. I'm just stuck with this BS. And here I was excited seeing a TWC Contractor working on some new fiber runs towards my neck of the woods. Guess it's a good thing I didn't get and itchy trigger find an buy a MAXX ready modem. Guess my SB6141 will work for the foreseeable future. |
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SDHank8 Premium Member join:2005-04-10 Escondido, CA
5 recommendations |
SDHank8
Premium Member
2016-Aug-10 7:37 pm
San DiegoParts of San Diego did get MAXX speeds and the Time Warner website is officially showing them as available for purchase. I'll be very, very disappointed if/when my 200/20 drops to 100/5. No, actually I'll be really pissed off. But since that's still better than than the only alternative currently available - AT&T - I suppose I'll just have to live with it. Ugh. Fargin bastages! |
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Netgear CM500 TP-Link Archer C7 Obihai OBi200
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Charter churn in 2017Well if charter is stead fast on rolling Charter's Plans across its acquired networks Charter will loose my business!! I pay total $46.88 for 100/10 a month, a jump to $100+fees a month is a no go for me and 60 Mbps plan is overpriced and will barely handle a 100% streaming home.. Decisions decisions decisions |
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4 recommendations |
Will be interesting to see if Charter changes pricing in Google Fiber...markets with TWC. In KC, TWC is 50/5/$30, 100/10/$40, 200/20/$50, 300/30/$60 and they are managing pretty well considering there are now 5 Gigabit players in KC market. The $30 50/5 is a pretty good deal for those looking to save. Will Charter budge? » What happens when you have multi Gigabit ISP competition? |
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4 recommendations |
The sad part about all this is...that TWC has tech that blows the doors off what Charter offers, yet Charter is more than happy to sweep it under the rug.
If Charter was actually smart, they would be focusing on rolling out what TWC already has, to all Charter subs. This would be a HUGE upgrade for all Charter subs and probably save Charter some money in the long run as they could drop their vaporware "World Box" development. But the morons that be over at Charter(I'm speaking directly at you Rutledge) are clueless. |
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me1212 join:2008-11-20 Lees Summit, MO
3 recommendations |
me1212
Member
2016-Aug-10 7:39 pm
that sucks, glad the kc area got their 300m upgrades already thenjerks |
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3 recommendations |
Deja Vu or nothing newAs you can see this will bear out the Albany Times Union's blog as to what speeds New Yorkers can expect.
And yes that 300/mb speed will be available on December 31, 2019 just as agreed. The public has been screwed over once again. |
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