Time Warner Cable Raises Standalone Broadband PricesSolo tiers see $2 hike, VoIP/broadband bundles see $3 hike.... 11:00AM Saturday Nov 29 2008 by Karl Bodetags: prices · business · bandwidth · cable · RoadRunner CableTipped by wstcvnaca  Southern California users in our Time Warner Cable/Roadrunner forum note that the cable company is raising the prices for some standalone broadband and double play offerings. A notice being sent to customers indicates that the company's standalone Lite, Basic, Standard and Turbo tiers will all be increasing by two dollars. Customers who bundle just broadband and VoIP will be seeing $3 price increases. The original alert: "Effective with your next monthly bill, all Road Runner retail rates will be increased by $2 to Lite $26.95, Basic $36.95, Standard $46.95 and Turbo $56.95. Surf N' Talk bundles with Road Runner or EarthLink will increase by $3 to Surf N' Talk $72.95 and Surf N' Talk Turbo $82.95" On Friday I asked Time Warner Cable if this was a market-specific increase or company wide, but apparently caught them enjoying turkey leftovers -- the company tells me they should have an answer to that question next week. On the plus side, those standalone prices are still considerably less than many cable operators are charging for non-bundled broadband service.
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Hazy Arc
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | Nice Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at Time Warner! | |
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Matt
You can't fix stupid
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Jamestown, NC
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| Re: Nice said by Hazy Arc :Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at Time Warner! No kidding. What genius decided to send that out now? | |
| | | DannyZ
Gentoo Fanboy
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join:2003-01-29
Erie, PA
| Re: Nice Well it is the season for rate hikes.
I just downloaded my bill and the statement date is 11/23,but there's no notice of a hike. Still 19.95 for Lite in NEO
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16
| People will bitch about anything I guess. How many times has Time Warner increased the price on Road Runner and how many times have they increased the speed? I've only had the service since 2004, but in the past four years, it went from 3Mb, to 5Mb, to 7Mb to 10Mb, and has not increased in price until now, and it's for RR only customers. Road Runner is still $39.95 but $49.95 for RR Only customers now instead of $44.95. This is the first increase for RR here, and it's not even applicable to all subscribers. And it appears RR prices have stayed pretty steady across the country, so why all the complaining? Would you rather have had TW increase rates $5 every year since the beginning?
Two years ago, Time Warner doubled my speed on decreased my bill by $20. I was paying $69.95 for Road Runner Premium at 8Mb/512Kb, now I pay $49.90 for Road Runner Turbo at 15Mb/1Mb.
Why should TW, Comcast or anyone else practically give away service for $10. Cable companies have never promoted or have been known for low coast broadband. Their business plan is to offer faster but more expensive solutions and personally that's what I want and it seems to have worked out very well over the past few years, so why change. I am so sick and tired of the Everything for Nothing mentality.
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC
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| Re: Nice They are increasing the price on RR, their Digital Phone product and we all know how often they raise cable TV rates.
RR Standard has always been $47.95 here, with an extra $9.95 for Turbo ... and it's a pathetic 7Mbps/384Kbps or 10Mbps/512Kbps.
You must live in a competitive area. Enjoy. | |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16
| Re: Nice In this instance, a whole $2 for broadband and a whole dollar for Digital Phone. Wow that's bank breaking right there.
No, my only other broadband option is the Verizon's lame DSL at 3Mb/768Kb, and that just became available two years ago thanks to remote terminals.
Wasn't your pathetic 7Mb less then half that speed a few years ago at 3Mb? Here's a thought, be grateful for what you have, and that this is your first price increase after getting speed increases.
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Hazy Arc
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Greenwood, SC | Re: Nice Who spit in your cranberry sauce? | |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16
| Re: Nice All of you who think you're so deserving, and want 100Mb broadband for 2 dollars a month.
Price increases happen, Time Warner for the most part have not increased prices on broadband while increasing speeds, and now after YEARS a price increase happens and people act like it's the end of the world.
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Matt
You can't fix stupid
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Jamestown, NC
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| Re: Nice said by Steve Mehs :All of you who think you're so deserving, and want 100Mb broadband for 2 dollars a month. Price increases happen, Time Warner for the most part have not increased prices on broadband while increasing speeds, and now after YEARS a price increase happens and people act like it's the end of the world. I wouldn't mind the price increase so much, but the cost to provide that same bandwidth has gone DOWN ... they are now increasing prices and trialing ridiculous caps. Since my area has no competition, we have the same lame-ass 384Kbps upload that has been available since the start.
Luckily, I live in a small pocket of the Triad that has fiber available to me, so I get 15/2 from another provider. | |
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toplevelpot
yes it is, no I don't share
join:2008-04-19
Los Angeles, CA | Well at least they told you beforehand! At&t wasn't even so polite earlier this year. Your notice of a monthly increase- a tripled bill.
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Dogfather
Altitude is your friend
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | You aren't alone We got our price increase from Cox HSI in August. | |
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mfiore
Normal, Why Be Normal
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join:2002-07-30
Dayton, OH | RR Western Ohio The price increase in this area appeared without warning on the lst bill I received in the middle of November. Suprise!  | |
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Boomerang86
Got FUD?
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Walden, NY
clubs:
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November 29th, @11:36AM
| not fair! We're already paying $29.95 for unbundled RR "Lite" (they call it "Intro" here in NYC/HV).
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pende_tim
Premium
join:2004-01-04
Andover, NJ
·Verizon Online DSL
 ·ViaTalk
| Annual Holiday Event We got a notice from Service Electric TV that cable internet was staying the same but TV was going up by $2.00
Happy Holidays to you too....
Tim
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| hacker90
join:2005-09-01
Winnebago, IL
 ·Mediacom
| Cheaper bandwidth?! Where are the "intro" tiers for people who do the most basic? My uncle likes to play just Poker online and nothing else. Paying $20 a month and then the promo rate goes away to double. Just for 1/768 service... Go comcast!
Compete with Dial-up at the $10 bracket for once! And that isn't for a promo rate, the normal! | |
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Qoiz
join:2005-06-26 | Re: Cheaper bandwidth?! I agree.. give him 256/128 or something for really cheap and he'd be fine! | |
| | elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA
·SONIC.NET
·Verizon Online DSL
·RoadRunner Cable
·MM INTERNET, INC.
| said by hacker90 :Where are the "intro" tiers for people who do the most basic? Paying $20 a month and then the promo rate goes away to double. Just for 1/768 service... Go comcast! Compete with Dial-up at the $10 bracket for once! And that isn't for a promo rate, the normal! Verizon's current line-share offer is a net of $14.75/month on a 1-year agreement, for 1M/384 service. With some negotiating, you can often get them down another 10% or more.
My "basic" DSL package is $12.82/month net before taxes. The "new user" rate when I renewed was less than $10/month net.
The offers are out there. Unfortunately, they don't come to you, you have to be diligent and pursue them.
And it doesn't hurt to lobby. I sent a letter to Verizon CEO reminding them to keep a cheap tier for those of us who have to pay our own health insurance... corporate marketing was very responsive and agreed. Now if we could only get them to offer a half-price low-speed FIOS, i.e. 3M/1M for $25.
Mind you, it seems that BBR's demographic is power users, who think nothing of paying $100 a month for broadband bundles, so long as there are no caps. Discussing cheap service levels will generally bring on scorn and insults. | |
| | | hacker90
join:2005-09-01
Winnebago, IL
·Mediacom
| Re: Cheaper bandwidth?! I'm talking a monthly rate of just $10 a month. No increase in price after a year etc... The basic tier for e-mail and website viewing only. I'm sure it can't kill them to provide close to 1/128 or 1/256 at that price. Comcast is the only one in the area and jacked him up to $42.95 after promo.... | |
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lost customer
@verizon.net | Can you say cancel please? 2 dollars may not be much but when I see the number increase,yea I think its time to cancel. | |
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RRMAN
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Cleveland, OH | Re: Can you say cancel please? Good leave...free up more bandwidth for me | |
| | tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| $ dollared to death.. the term nickeled & dimed, just got it's inflationary marchin orders.. the new term is dollared to death!
however.. there is a silver lining.. tv, and internet are not necessities like food... and food producers are gouging there too. wages have only seen a $1-2 minimum increase.. meanwhile the basic necessities (shelter, food, fuel, healthcare all went up double & triple digit percentages 10-200%)
If twc wants to play with tiered broadband.. should be simple as $20, $30, and $45 (1.5 - 3.0), (5 - 6), and (10-20) Mbits.. depending on how serious telco is about competing in said markets, with $5-15 discount for bundling. | |
| | qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA
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November 29th, @05:06PM
| Higher prices combined with (soon) throttling and caps... More money for less service. Ain't the american way great?
Mr Matt (above)-Cox offers the same deal. | |
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Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
| Central NY Region is gettin it too! I left Time Warner about a month ago. Within a week or two of leaving I received (as if still a customer) a letter from them that their Road Runner rates were increasing.
From 29.95 to 34.95 for RR lite. (768k)
From 44.95 to 49.95 for standard RR. (5M)
RR turbo unchanged at an additional 9.95 on top of the standard RR. (8M)
The new rates applied in a month or two (don't remember exact date), or at the end of any intro rate term, whichever came last.
DSL through my local telco is available for $47.95. (12M) Slower and less expensive tiers are available (as low as 27.95), but not stand alone. And I wouldn't be surprised to see them increase along with RR, the telcos only competition.
Sorry guys. You're just getting too expensive. Paying out the ass for a copper wire connected to our house we are. I'm fortunate enough to have a computer and internet available to me at work, so I still get to play on line a little. I'm also fortunate enough that my income doesn't require an internet connection, I go on line to play, so I was able to drop it - and did! | |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16 | Re: Central NY Region is gettin it too! If you are in TW CNY territory, Road Runner Standard is 10Mb, Road Runner Turbo is 15Mb, not 5Mb and 8Mb respectively. | |
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Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
| Re: Central NY Region is gettin it too! My office is on the western edge (fredonia NY) and we haven't received that upgrade, yet. In fact, I'm so western that if you put my office zip (14063) into Time Warner's web page you be asked to select from two possible regions - Buffalo and Central NY. We're still at 5 and 8. They did just recently add powerboost to the turbo option, but that's it.
I just tried a couple downloads and confirmed high 500 KB to mid 600 KB (as indicated by IE). | |
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hobgoblin
Sortof Agoblin
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Orchard Park, NY
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| said by Steve Mehs :If you are in TW CNY territory, Road Runner Standard is 10Mb, Road Runner Turbo is 15Mb, not 5Mb and 8Mb respectively. He is in WNY territory and there are still some that have legacy Adelphia speeds.
Hob
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16 | Re: Central NY Region is gettin it too! I thought Fredonia was STNY which is now part of CNY. And I don't believe STNY ever received the speed upgrades yet. | |
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Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
| Re: Central NY Region is gettin it too! Fredonia cable used to be, years ago, provided by Cablevision. Cablevision, at least locally, was bought out by Time Warner. A few years ago Time Warner finally brought in Road Runner. If I go to my local Time Warner office, that used to be Cablevision's, they will instruct me to select Central NY when prompted to get my pricing and service options.
Less than a mile from my office (zipcode 14048 which is also split between regions Buffalo and Central NY), serviced also by Time Warner, but in what used to be Adelphia's region before it was also bought out by Time Warner, has the Buffalo region pricing. Ergo, 19.95 for RR lite as opposed to the 29.95 for RR lite we are charged before the rate increase. Talk about burning my ass! 
The price difference is what gives me the certainty of the region Time Warner considers me in. I went looking for the $19.95 and got told I was looking at the wrong region. "Select Central NY", they told me. Grumble, Grumble....... pouting out the office I went. | |
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hobgoblin
Sortof Agoblin
Premium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
clubs: | Re: Central NY Region is gettin it too! My mistake......
Hob | |
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antdude
A Ninja Ant
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join:2001-03-25 |  New one?
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| wcnghj
join:2008-05-01
·Great Works Internet
| Tip If you live in New England,and have RR Regular, call and threaten to cancel.
Tell them earthlink cable has 7mbit service for $29.99(they do) and you were thinking about switching to them.
They should lower your price to $34.95/6 months. | |
| | qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA | Re: Tip I almost bought Earthlink cable-until I discovered that their 7 mbps service has only 384kbps upload speeds! | |
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Time Warner Customers should check pricing.