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Cable Companies Reject Tiered Pricing Model

Posted by timothy on from the just-you-wait dept.

The Lynxpro submits this Investor's Business Daily article carried on Yahoo!, writing "It details how the Cable Companies are resisting a pricing this competition with DSL providers by resisting tiered pricing models. The article highlights how Time Warner Cable and Comcast are both bringing access speeds back to 3Mbps without any price increases. What the article fails to mention is that is the very speed rate @Home offered before going into bankruptcy. The cable companies formerly partnered with @Home reduced access speeds when they resumed their own services in the wake of the @Home implosion." I wonder if (low-speed) Internet access will ever be just another basic-cable feature.

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  1. Nice non-sequitur by Distan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didja notice at the end of the article:

    The Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) has asked broadband service providers to crack down on subscribers that illegally share music over the Internet.

    Other than the tenuous link to upload speeds, that had nothing to do with the rest of the news story. It may just as well ended with:

    Many broadband subscribers use their connection to view pornography. The Pope, who once watched cable television, is opposed to pornography.

  2. Really fast ;-) by leighklotz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last weekend I got a call from Comcast offering me Cable Internet service for an introductory rate of $21.95/mo. I asked how fast and the telecaller said, "Six hundred and thirty five gigabytes." I said, "Per month? Per hour? Per second?" She said, "Per second, sir."

    I asked, "Can I run servers?"
    She said, "Yes sir!"
    I said, "On port 80 and port 25?"
    She said, "On all ports, sir."

    I said, "Before I sign up I'd like to speak to your supervisor to confirm this great deal."

    Sadly, the deal evaporated when I got to speak the the sympathiser, but she was interested in what I wanted. I told her I had 1Mb/1Mb symmetric access and static 8 IP addresses, and she asked what they could do to get me to move to Comcast Cable Internet service. I suggested perhaps symmetric service 1.5Mb/1.5Mb would be nice, or perhaps 3Mb down and a portable Class C netblock to do multi-homing with my current 1Mb SDSL uplink. She wrote it all down and said she'd pass my request along.

    I'm still smarting at the lose of the 635GB/sec downlink for $21.95/mo though!