Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
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Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
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Re: Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
#2funny how that happens...
/me tips his hat to capitalism
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#3This article is factually inaccurate. Time Warner is rolling this change out across the country, not just in the Kansas City area.
Here's the announcement from December: http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012/12/we-are-boosting-down...
Frankly, Time Warner needs to increase their internet speeds to keep up with LTE. I have one of the higher speed options and my LTE speeds are about twice what I experience on my Time Warner connection.
Re: Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
#4funny how that happens... /me tips his hat to capitalism
Why give the credit to capitalism? Suppose the government were to provide quality broadband service -- would that not also force the ISPs to act (e.g. how UPS competes with USPS)?
This is a win for competition, not capitalism. Not all competition is capitalism, and capitalism does not always imply meaningful competition (it does, however, generally fail to serve people best in the absence of competition).
Re: Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
#5funny how that happens... /me tips his hat to capitalism
Why give the credit to capitalism? Suppose the government were to provide quality broadband service -- would that not also force the ISPs to act (e.g. how UPS competes with USPS)? This is a win for competition , not capitalism . Not all competition is capitalism, and capitalism does not always imply meaningful competition (it does, however, generally fail to serve people best in the absence of competition).
be cafeful yourself not to conflate capitilism with corporatism.
Re: Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
#6This article is factually inaccurate. Time Warner is rolling this change out across the country, not just in the Kansas City area. Here's the announcement from December: http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012/12/we-are-boosting-down... Frankly, Time Warner needs to increase their internet speeds to keep up with LTE. I have one of the higher speed options and my LTE speeds are about twice what I experience on my Time Wa…
Yeah, Comcast is doing the same thing in my hodunk little town on the East Coast— sans the price decrease.
Re: Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
#7funny how that happens... /me tips his hat to capitalism
Capitalism my ass, this is another flavor of fine-tuned government and industry collusion.
No government on earth would tolerate any kind of capitalism other than the competitive bidding for multi-year exclusivity agreements (ie: guaranteed ways of sticking it to consumers).
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#8Meanwhile in Canada, internet prices trend upwards, and google fibre-esque offerings are nowhere to be seen.
Re: Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
#9Meanwhile in Canada, internet prices trend upwards, and google fibre-esque offerings are nowhere to be seen.
pretty much exactly.
Re: Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill
#10This article is factually inaccurate. Time Warner is rolling this change out across the country, not just in the Kansas City area. Here's the announcement from December: http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012/12/we-are-boosting-down... Frankly, Time Warner needs to increase their internet speeds to keep up with LTE. I have one of the higher speed options and my LTE speeds are about twice what I experience on my Time Wa…
Yeah, Comcast is doing the same thing in my hodunk little town on the East Coast— sans the price decrease.
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