It looks like the folks at TWC are bad losers. They are now considering dropping the planned rollout of DOCSIS 3.0high speed citing that it was part of their plan for consumption based billing.
In other words, if they are not going to get the blood money they planned from CBB, they might not feel the need to roll out wideband (even though they are not implicitly tied). Alex Dudley, VP of public relations for Time Warner explains via his twitter feed:
@gigastacey it was scheduled as part of cbb trial, but we all know how you feel about that.
@netpro2k It doesn’t…just that the rollout was scheduled with the trial and now all of it is on hold.
@Stryph Biggest cost is actually bandwidth allocation.
Obviously, if they are concerned about another major public backlash, they had damn well better come through with this. As a TWC customer, I will definitely be one of those people shaking my fist. [PCMag]
source: gizmodo.com
Im lucky enough to live in a small town far enough away from a major city. We have our own “node” or w/e you call it and do not share the line with Albany. When TWC first promised us RoadRunner it was about 4 years before they actually got it to us but it was worth the wait because it was basically uncapped, or at least well above the speeds I am capped at now.
The problem is they havent invested any money in equipment or infrastructure and the costs keep going up. My DVR box and cable modem could possibly be wooden. Both suck equally and require constant hard reboots. I recently bought my own modem and cancelled my cable tv package now that I have my popcorn hour. Just wish I had a better choice for ISPs, its either dial up or TWC here.
source: multichannel.com