Frontier Communications’ DSL modem rental fee is now as high as $6.99 a month in some of the phone company’s service areas, $14.99 a month if you want the convenience of a wireless router built-in. That’s $84 and $189 a year, respectively, for equipment that cost the company a fraction of that. I can go […]
It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve’s Chris Green’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that the […]
Well, stop the cap has the details of basic RoadRunner speed increases for the Time-Warner Cable in Rochester, ny…. (And the region). My view… Roadrunner turbo isn’t currently worth the $9.99 difference between Standard & Turbo… The Rochester-Finger Lakes Division of Time Warner Cable has upgraded upload speed for Road Runner Standard service customers, up […]
Verizon just ramped up FiOS with speed upgrades for all its regular tiers as well as the addition of a new 35 Mbps tier (w/20Mbps upload speeds). Plus, Verizon sped up many of their tiers…So that now means that Verizon FIOS is offered with: * 15 Mbps down / 5 Mbps Up @ $45 per […]
Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC: “At an earnings conference on Wednesday, Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that the cable provider will begin using the newer, multi-channel DOCSIS 3.0 standard to provide Internet and data access to homes and businesses this summer, although it will be limited to New York […]
Man, Time Warner Cable — you are some shady players. Hot on the heels of the ISP’s decision to withdraw DOCSIS 3.0 trials from areas that have rejected its tiered billing plan, we’re hearing that TWC’s teamed up with Embarq to persuade the North Carolina state government into banning community-owned broadband services. via Engadget. Â Read […]
I am trying to find a second source to verify this, but according to Stop the Cap (http://www.stopthecap.com ) Time Warner Cable has officially stated that they are shelving plans for the tiering of the internet… Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and I stood side by side this afternoon in front of Time Warner headquarters in […]
“NewsFactor – Time Warner Cable’s plan for tiered Internet service is running into more opposition and competition. In Rochester, N.Y., the site of one of the trials, competitor Frontier Communications has dropped its own plan for tiered DSL service — and is looking to accommodate any disgruntled Time Warner customers.” (View the rest of the […]