Time Warner Fails at making people pay more, ditches high speed internet.
Upon reading engadget, I read about how Time Warner Cable may be dropping the DOCSIS 3.0 trials they planed to launch because they weren't able to implement the broadband pricing tears. The Tier Pricing got alot of bad PR because, frankly, it crippled people and if you did not want to be broadband crippled they forced you to pay more.
As their plans stand now, you pay about $60 a month for an unlimited stream. And I am not too much against a cap at one point, although its punishing the 99% good. I truly wonder what type of broadband consumption my house uses. At my house, assuming I am home, we tend to have 2 360s that may be playing on Xbox Live, downloading content or even streaming media via Netflix on the 360, as well as downloading from MSDN. If my house doesn't push the cap (lets say 250gb like comcast), then I will be fine. Otherwise, if my activities like that cause me to go over the cap, that is where my issue is.
Still not sure why Time Warners PR hit has to cause us to suffer. I just want broadband like Japan, or even those northern European countries.
[Engadget]