BREAKING NEWS - Time Warner Cap is Dead
Good news this afternoon, that Time Warner is dropping its plan for tiered internet pricing. From Eric Massa:
Today Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) thanked the grassroots movement which helped Time Warner arrive at the common sense decision to abandon their plan to charge broadband internet customers based on how much they download. Rep. Massa took a lead on this issue by first voicing his opposition on April 7th. He later announced that he will be sponsoring the Massa Broadband Internet Fairness Act which would eliminate broadband internet caps, increase competition and provide incentives for businesses while protecting the consumer.
“We’re delighted that commonsense prevailed,” said Rep. Eric Massa. “The people of Western New York spoke and I heard them loud and clear. Together we have won and I am glad that I was able to play a small part in bringing about this change. This is a true grassroots victory, but we will move forward with our legislation to ensure that any future plans to charge customers based on how much they download do not spring up anywhere else.”
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Great news but I do hope he goes ahead with legislation=the greedy guts tw will try this again once the heat dies down.
Here’s something interesting, from msnbc:
I didn’t even know they were going to do that. Well, I’m glad we stopped them at least.
This seems to be a very strange and very sad commentary about life.
There can be some sort of rabid harmonic convergence over a Time Warner rate increase that gets the attention of citizens and elected officials that actually produces some results. Why, oh, why can’t we do this with the issue of health care?
I wouldn’t count on Frontier being around too much longer.
Just goes to show that the people can make a difference!
Politicians probably whispered one word in TW’s ear..”competition”
TW does not want to give up the monopoly they enjoy from the Republican Admins around Monroe County.
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