Time Warner Cable to axe DOCSIS 3.0 trials without tiered billing?

Jun 21 2009

Time Warner Cable to axe DOCSIS 3.0 trials without tiered billing?

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If you’re following the Time Warner Cable capping drama (and we know that you’re), then you’ll be interested in a short post published on GigaOm today. From the looks of things, TWC isn’t just backing off of the tiered pricing plans that they’d proposed recently — it also looks like they’re fully prepared to take their ball and go home when it comes to DOCSIS 3.0 trials. Originally the broadband provider had been hatching plans to roll out the ultra-fast world wide web service in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, Greensboro, N.C., and Rochester, NY — but attitudes seem to have changed now that they might not get the new cash infusion that costly metered usage would provide. In a flurry of tweets from the company’s cocky VP of PR, Alex Dudley, there seems to be an indication that with the consumption based billing (CBB to us industry types), so potentially goes the DOCSIS 3.0 trials. In his own, understanding words — responding to Stacey Higginbotham’s query about whether or not the company will pull the high-speed without tiers:

@gigastacey it was scheduled as part of cbb trial, but we all know how you feel about that.

Frankly, we’re still not sure if the facts on this story are absolutely straight, since much of it is based on 140 character tweets, which — believe it or not — aren’t that helpful when you need details. We have the ability to however, communicate this to Time Warner Cable: you’re fools and bastards if you pull this testing because you can’t make your tiered billing work.

Read - TWC to Customers: You Don’t Want Tiers, You Don’t Get Super-fast Broadband
Read - Alex Dudley’s tweet

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