Airwolf7
Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
 ·AT&T Southeast
| Who gives a F**k!
They are going to do whatever they want to do and we are going to bend over and take it in the a** like we always do.
If they want metered billing then that is what we are going to get.
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dr3yec
join:2002-12-19
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1 edit | Well I will let them know by my wallet. Any company that does meter billing. Will never see my green. Thank god I dont live in a time warner area. But I do live in a AT&T area. Since AT&T is talking meter billing. I lost interest in there service. Even with uverse coming to town. I will not pay for caps! |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | in the back ground
paid for by att and tw. |
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Shamayim
I already have a Messiah.
Premium
join:2002-09-23
2 edits | And you will like it
"Time Warner Cable . . . made it very clear they'd be returning to the plan after they 'educated' all of their 'confused' consumers."
Smells more like re-educated their confused customers...
"Repeat after us:
Unmetered is BAD. Metered is GOOD!
Unmetered is BAD. Metered is GOOD!
Unmetered is BAD. Metered is GOOD!
Unmetered is BAD. Metered is GOOD!
Unmetered is BAD. Metered is GOOD!
Unmetered is BAD. Metered is GOOD!"
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO
 ·VOIPo
| Oh WTF!?!??!
Ya know maybe if they did NOT treat us like dumb @$$3$ this would be easier for them.
I would be ok with metered billing IF they did it right. No cap just a PAYG plan $10 for 5m and 2x what a GB cost them, so if a GB cost them $0.10(I do not know what 1GB cost them) we would pay $0.20 per GB.
I wish they would ether do it or not, y can they not just make up their mind already and get it over with!?!? |
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DataRiker
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join:2002-05-19
Metairie, LA
clubs: | sad
Does anyone else see how unethical it is for corporations to make fake advocacy groups?
Kind reminds you of all the telco/cable shills we have on this site. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
|  Consumer group definitions BBR style
Good consumer group - one that is socialist in outlook and in favor of the government running things and in favor of massive regulation.
Bogus consumer group - any group that believes in free enterprise and the capitalist system.
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maartena
Stacked.
Premium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
| If the caps are too low for the 21st century....
I'll simply vote with my wallet. In the Southern California area there are alternatives from DSLExtreme and SonicDSL.... although not as speedy (6/768), I will be quite happy with that speed if there is NO CAP attached.
Those in Verizon country, half of the socal area, can move to FIOS. And AT&T really doesn't want to impose a cap before TWC does, so they probably won't in this area either.
In any case, if they must impose a cap, anything less then the 250 Gb that Comcast has imposed is an insult to the 21st century.
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anon148123123
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Ammler 
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Re: Who gives a F**k!
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
They need to remove the $50.00 / month for 10Down/2up & go with $5.00/month for the model/router rental & then charge for the mega, giga bytes when your start streaming data to & fro! Simple & fair. |
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sturmvogel
Obama '08
join:2008-02-07
Houston, TX
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Consumer group definitions BBR style
Consumer Group (normal) = group consisting of consumers watching out for consumer interests
Consumer Group (Republican style) = bogus group made up by corporate shills dedicated to pushing corp. interests funded (if possible) by taxpayer money while continually being focused on less service, higher prices and monopoly politics while focusing also on "shareholder value" *
* = highest compensation for execs while running the company into the ground
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Simba7
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | reply to maartena
Re: If the caps are too low for the 21st century....
I agree. 250GB should be the lowest cap.. Period.
Especially if next-gen services are available. Anything less is purposely holding us back.
I still enjoy my cap-less internet. |
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Shamayim
I already have a Messiah.
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join:2002-09-23
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Re: Consumer group definitions BBR style
said by TKJunkMail :Bogus consumer group - any group that believes in free enterprise and the capitalist system. And less competition, and rolling the mark customer, and fooling the mark customer and pretending to be comprised of customers, and in the best interest of the customer, and . . .
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
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said by TKJunkMail :Good consumer group - one that is socialist in outlook and in favor of the government running things and in favor of massive regulation. Bogus consumer group - any group that believes in free enterprise and the capitalist system. I know you were posting out of frustration because consumers are starting to wake up and the corporate feeding trough full of "profits above all, consumers be damned" is running dry.
But you know as well as I do that in this case, Karl is right. When the gentleman running the "advocacy" group worked for several of the worst offenders for years and conveniently shares the same opinion as said former bosses ... well, that gentleman has no credibility. We call that "transparentis motivi" - or we would if that was even close to the actual Latin for "transparent motive." |
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k1ll3rdr4g0n
join:2005-03-19
Homer Glen, IL
| reply to dr3yec
Re: Who gives a F**k!
said by dr3yec :Well I will let them know by my wallet. Any company that does meter billing. Will never see my green. Thank god I dont live in a time warner area. But I do live in a AT&T area. Since AT&T is talking meter billing. I lost interest in there service. Even with uverse coming to town. I will not pay for caps! Then what are you gonna use? Dial-up? Sneakernet Carrier pidgin? Smoke signals?....
If you don't take a stand now, and get your neighborhood together and threaten to cut their service if they don't get rid of the caps, we may as well just make HSI a luxury for rich people. Saying you will go with another provider doesn't make sense when there isn't another choice. |
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roymustang
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join:2002-01-12
Oxford, MS | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Consumer group definitions BBR style
If it is funded by a company, it isn't a consumer group. Good or bad is irrelevant. |
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sturmvogel
Obama '08
join:2008-02-07
Houston, TX
| What we should do
Is to create a Cable Operators Advocacy group, imply that it is comprised of cable/ISP individuals and start showing how bad their policies are.
If it is OK for cable operators to pose as "consumers" and push their agenda, it should be also fine for customers to do the opposite.
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| reply to roymustang
Re: Consumer group definitions BBR style
said by roymustang :If it is funded by a company, it isn't a consumer group. Good or bad is irrelevant. And if the group is funded by a person like George Soros with a socialist agenda, then that is pro-consumer? I think not.
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DarkLogix
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
1 edit | reply to Shamayim
Re: And you will like it
Repeat after me
The Leader is good
the leader is great
I surrender my fate as of this date
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sturmvogel
Obama '08
join:2008-02-07
Houston, TX
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Consumer group definitions BBR style
said by TKJunkMail :said by roymustang :If it is funded by a company, it isn't a consumer group. Good or bad is irrelevant. And if the group is funded by a person like George Soros with a socialist agenda, then that is pro-consumer? I think not. A socialist minded individual is still a person, regardless of how rich. A socialist system is focused on benefiting the individual. It is the perversion of the system (as in Soviet states) that gives socialism a bad name. I do not believe that socialism would work, though, given it is against the nature of human evolution and self benefit, but I strongly believe that socialism as a counter balance to capitalism run amok/monopolies is a good thing.
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axiomatic
join:2006-08-23
Tomball, TX | Ummmmm
Hey Time Warner,
Some of us are network engineers... and we don't work for you. There is no amount of schadenfreude you can apply to this situation to pull the wool over our collective eyes.
Thanks for playing.... |
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