Time Warner to Cap Bandwidth Usage in Rochester to 40GB
Via Gizmodo:
“Austin, San Antonio, Rochester, NY, and Greensboro, North Carolina are the next cities to suffer Time Warner’s comparatively draconian 40GB caps at the high-end—Comcast’s is 250GB, AT&T’s is 150GB, and all of them suck.”
This totally blows. Let TWC know how dissatisfied you are with this decision. Vote with your wallet if need be. If Netsville serviced my house, I would already be canceling my account.
Via brbubba on Digg: “How the hell is this not a violation of anti-monopoly laws? Basically roll out a competitive service at a certain price and then once you have reached market dominance, yank the carpet out from under consumers and start charging them insane fees. The very fact that they are only rolling this out in markets where FIOS is not present and there are no other major competitors is all the evidence you need to unequivocally prove that they are leveraging their monopoly against the consumer unfairly. I’m all for free market economies, but when the government doesn’t enforce existing laws designed to ensure that those economies remain free then it is up to us as consumers to enforce those laws with our wallets.”
