Comments on: Time Warner Monthly Data Caps Detailed http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/06/time_warner_monthly_data_caps_detailed-2/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:19:01 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jamie http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/06/time_warner_monthly_data_caps_detailed-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7072 Jamie Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:10:17 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/06/time_warner_monthly_data_caps_detailed-2.html#comment-7072 <p>Time Warner is doing one thing right with this, from an acceptance standpoint: focusing on the speed. By claiming how fast you get your data (15 megabit, woo!), people as less likely to notice that 40 gigabytes isn't much. And at the speed they claim, it's downright miniscule.</p> <p>Yeah, Oz is bad. I pay $130/mo for 1500/256, 80 gigs of transit. Overage is like $4 a gig. So cry me a river.</p> <p>I notice they are doing this in the ass end of Texas. Why? I bet the local phone lines are crap quality, so ADSL is hard to get, and as such, cable is the only option. They have to phase it in in areas where there is no competition because, otherwise, noone would sign up. </p> Time Warner is doing one thing right with this, from an acceptance standpoint: focusing on the speed. By claiming how fast you get your data (15 megabit, woo!), people as less likely to notice that 40 gigabytes isn’t much. And at the speed they claim, it’s downright miniscule.

Yeah, Oz is bad. I pay $130/mo for 1500/256, 80 gigs of transit. Overage is like $4 a gig. So cry me a river.

I notice they are doing this in the ass end of Texas. Why? I bet the local phone lines are crap quality, so ADSL is hard to get, and as such, cable is the only option. They have to phase it in in areas where there is no competition because, otherwise, noone would sign up.

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