Alex Dudley, VP of PR at Time Warner, mentioned something interesting in our interview with him: “Look, I don’t know why this is such – why this is foreign to folks. You know, you’re either paying for consumption… I mean, the concept of paying for what you consume is not a foreign one. I understand [...]
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How Data Caps Kill Your Performance, Part 3 of 3
Part 3: Killing Your Financial Performance… and your company’s performance.Time Warner can bring out the argument that, under data-capped plans you only pay “extra” for data “over the cap.” The problem is that every single one of Time Warner’s plans require you to “buy” that cap of data with your monthly fee. Since every single [...]
Updates on Time Warner from Wired, NYT, Ars, & the Horse’s Mouth.
There have been some updates on Time Warner’s data caps since we started covering them. First, Wired’s Epicenter blog took a look at some of the justifications for the caps. In Ryan Singel’s “Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics,” Wired breaks down Time Warner’s economic justifications for the data caps – and call [...]
How Data Caps Kill Your Performance, Part 2 of 3
Part 2: Killing Network Performance So, let’s take a look at what Time Warner is doing and compare it to some other offerings. First, Time Warner has four plans, at four speeds with four caps. While a TW spokesman has said that people will be able to mix-and-match data caps with bandwidth plans in Austin, [...]
How Data Caps Kill Your Performance, Part 1 of 3
Part One: Killing Economic Performance. Last Thursday, we published an interview with the VP of PR for Time Warner Cable about plans to roll out data caps in the city of Austin and three other cities – Austin the most high-tech focused of the three. In this three-part post, we’ll take a look at how [...]
Notes from VoiceCon
By Jeff Hicks I recently attended VoiceCon and noticed a few trends there – who knows how they’ll pan out, but here are some notes from the event. First, Video conferencing had a very large presence at the event. Many companies are either selling or deploying solutions to save on travel and enable collaboration. Management [...]
Time Warner brings tiered caps to Austin.
That sound you’re hearing is the screaming of my soul being crushed. All great journalists can maintain complete objectivity in the most trying of circumstances. I am merely a good journalist. Well, I’m adequate. But I think I should disclose my biases here, as this is an issue that affects me personally. DSLReports.com reported that [...]
Nothing of importance happened today.
Nothing of any sort of importance at all, culturally, scientifically, or technologically, happened. There were no events worth mentioning, and nothing worth reporting on. We’ll keep you updated with the latest as this story continues to break.
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