Time Warner Cable to axe DOCSIS 3.0 trials without tiered billing?
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted April 21st 2009 8:34PM
posted April 21st 2009 8:34PM
If you're following the Time Warner Cable capping drama (and we know that you are), then you'll be interested in a short post published on GigaOm today. From the looks of things, TWC isn't just backing off of the tiered pricing plans that they'd proposed recently -- it also looks like they're fully prepared to take their ball and go home when it comes to DOCSIS 3.0 trials. 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. In his own, understanding words -- responding to Stacey Higginbotham's query about whether or not the company will pull the high-speed without tiers:@gigastacey it was scheduled as part of cbb trial, but we all know how you feel about that.
Frankly, we're still not sure if the facts on this story are totally straight, since much of it is based on 140 character tweets, which -- believe it or not -- aren't that helpful when you need details. We can however, communicate this to Time Warner Cable: you are fools and bastards if you pull this testing because you can't make your tiered billing work.
Read - TWC to Customers: You Don't Want Tiers, You Don't Get Super-fast Broadband
Read - Alex Dudley's tweet
Read - TWC to Customers: You Don't Want Tiers, You Don't Get Super-fast Broadband
Read - Alex Dudley's tweet
This company must be being run by a bunch of children. What a joke. If they had even an inkling of a competitor, this company would fold so fast.
This may have already been said, but...
With their non sequitur assertion that, because unreasonably low bandwidth caps were roundly rejected by pretty much everyone, TWC will now withhold a service upgrade in those same test areas that would have enabled customers to exceed those caps much quicker, there is clearly an ulterior motive in the timing & release of this news.
remember how, right after they backpedaled out of the usage cap trials, some TWC person basically said the lesson learned was that they need to "re-educate" their customers before attempting to enforce the same caps in the future? well to me, due to the complete ridiculousness of this claim, it seems that this may be their first pathetic attempt at re-educating everyone... of course it has obviously already backfired as well, but surely there will be more TWC insanity to follow. what will they come up with next?
" you are fools and bastards if you pull this testing because you can't make your tiered billing work"
That wins line of hte week.
These tards are why I'm always wishing that someone would make a wireless broadband system that was competitive in bandwidth and ping times-the lack of need to lay infrastructure by digging up roads slowly like verizon would get rid of the cable companies' monopolies ASAP.
Seriously someone needs to get 100mbps wimax out so these idiots stop trying to pull this crap.