Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet

Freshly Exhumed writes "Chris Welch at The Verge tells us: 'Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable's Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is having on consumers. "We're in the business of delivering what consumers want, and to stay a little ahead of what we think they will want," she said when asked about the breakneck internet speeds delivered by Google's young Kansas City network. "We just don't see the need of delivering that to consumers."' The article goes on to quote her: '...residential customers have thus far shown little interest in TWC's top internet tiers. "A very small fraction of our customer base" ultimately choose those options.'"

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Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber

[Grishnakh]

Sorry, but the OP's sentiment is shared by most Americans these days. It's too bad Slashdot doesn't have something to show the poster's country next to their name, so we can ignore comments from people in countries infected by pure lunacy, and maybe even put in a filter to ignore such comments, just as we do for low-modded posts (though for the US, it'd help if it showed the state the poster was in; the post was probably made from someplace like Alabama or Nebraska, not from New York or California or Washington).