{"id":803,"date":"2009-04-09T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=803"},"modified":"2011-02-10T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T03:22:58","slug":"the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"The price-gouging premiums of Time Warner Cable&#8217;s data caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/04\/the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps.ars\">The price-gouging premiums of Time Warner Cable&#8217;s data caps<\/a>:<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/04\/the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps.ars\">      <\/p>\n<p>Time Warner Cable, stung by online criticism of its <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/04\/get-ready-for-metered-broadband-texas.ars\">paltry traffic caps<\/a> (in tests, these have ranged form 5GB\/month to 40GB\/month) and ludicrous pricing schemes, has taken to the &#8216;Net to defend its sullied honor. But it&#8217;s hard to defend a scheme with fees so high they might well meet the legal definition of &#8216;obscene.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>First, the response: Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs wrote earlier this week of the need for people to pay for the bandwidth they consume. &#8216;When you go to lunch with a friend, do you split the bill in half if he gets the steak and you have a salad?&#8217; he asked. <\/p>\n<p>         <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/04\/the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps.ars\">Click here to read the rest of this article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\">Ars Technica<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price-gouging premiums of Time Warner Cable&#8217;s data caps: Time Warner Cable, stung by online criticism of its paltry traffic caps (in tests, these have ranged form 5GB\/month to 40GB\/month) and ludicrous pricing schemes, has taken to the &#8216;Net to defend its sullied honor. But it&#8217;s hard to defend a scheme with fees so high <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/the-price-gouging-premiums-of-time-warner-cables-data-caps\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[45,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->