TWC – Time Warner and RoadRunner Disconnect Customer in Austin for 44 gigs!
Austin StoptheCap! reader Ryan Howard kicks off our premiere edition with a report that his Road Runner service was cut off yesterday without warning. According to Ryan, it took four calls to technical support, two visits to the cable store to try two new cable modems (all to no avail), before someone at Time Warner finally told him to call the company’s “Security and Abuse” center.
TWC – No data caps, no DOCSIS 3.0? TWC’s math doesn’t add up
The company says that it needs the extra revenue to pay for the upgrades and all that bandwidth that people insist on using. The company’s numbers tell a different story.
TWC – Time Warner Cable to axe DOCSIS 3.0 trials without tiered billing?
Originally the broadband provider had been hatching plans to roll out the ultra-fast internet service in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, Greensboro, N.C., and Rochester, NY — but attitudes seem to have changed now that they might not get the new cash infusion that pricey metered usage would provide. In a flurry of tweets from the company’s cocky VP of PR, Alex Dudley, there seems to be an indication that with the consumption based billing (CBB to us industry types), so potentially goes the DOCSIS 3.0 trials.
TWC – More Credit Than I Deserve – The Time Warner Cable Subversion Plan
With just $10 and free software, John McElhenney joined a growing number of online activists voicing their concern with Time Warner Cable’s plans to implement a tier-based billing structure for Internet users in four cities, including San Antonio and Austin. MeterThis.net has given a local voice to the movement opposing usage caps down in high-tech Austin.
TWC – MeterThis Shines in David Rauf’s Podcast on TWC and Bandwidth Metering
With $10 and free software, John McElhenney joined a growing number of online activists voicing their concern with Time Warner Cable’s plans to implement a tier-based billing structure for Internet users in four cities, including San Antonio and Austin.
