This one should be interesting to watch. Time Warner Cable, after having tried tiered pricing in some podunk town, is now going to roll it out to a city with one of the highest concentrations of tech workers in the US. Can't want to see this one blow up, considering their base cap is 40GB.
“86 percent of our customers at least have nothing to worry about,” Dudley said, “That’s the percentage of customers that will be left unaffected by the trial.” I asked if that’s in comparison to Beaumont and whether that’s a very different market. He replied, “Internet usage is a lot like television viewing. It doesn’t vary from geographic area to geographic area.”
I'm looking forward to telling Time Warner Cable off over this one when I move in May. I'll be looking for a new place serviced by a local ISP that actually used forward thinking and rolled out a fibre network years ago to deal with growing demands of a streaming internet age.
Oh, and this is amusing:
DSLReports notes that the cities getting tiered pricing are ones in which Verizon FIOS service is not available.
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