TWC Sales and Revenue UP, Costs DOWN, Who’s Complainin?
Wired magazine has a nice piece on the TWC capping efforts.
Congressman Eric Massa (D), who represents Rochester, was an early opponent of the plan and claimed victory Thursday.
“We’re delighted that commonsense prevailed,” Massa said, calling the cancellation a “true grassroots victory.”
But Massa said he’s not giving up on his proposed legal ban on charging customers by how much data they use, a billing model common outside of the United States.
“We will move forward with our legislation to ensure that any future plans to charge customers based on how much they download do not spring up anywhere else,” he said.
Read the entire Wired post.
April 18, 2009
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