TWC Bandwith Structure Billing
Recently Time Warner Cable tested in a few different cities some different bandwith capping plans. Suffice to say they didn’t work out, but it looks like the still plan on trying. They made a post on long reply that can be found here.
There is only one way I can see this working for TWC, if everyone does it. If my provider for cable did this, I’d be looking at the first available alternative and jump ship. The only people who will be okay with these are people who only use the internet for browsing purposes or light gaming. This seems to me as another play at trying to cash in on new technologies, the big one being streaming video, more specically Netflix (which if it did streaming a while back when a certain Tubes remark was made…). Of course the best part about our society is competition. Which is why I feel this will never work. As long as the competition can offer “unlimited” internet why go to TWC?
I could maybe see my parents using a lower tier so that they could pay less, but they only use the internet for surfing because they are on dialup. As soon as reasonable broadband is introduced into their area, my guess is that they will upgrade. I also forsee them getting into streaming video and purchasing video which would take them up a notch. I make this statement because after I took my Apple TV up north my Dad informed me that I was not allowed to take it back with me.
Is there anyone out there that thinks this is a good idea? I’m really curious to see what people think. You can email me, the link can be found to the left.
This article can also be found here on Murmur.
