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Post your comments for Users don't want gigabit Internet speeds, Time Warner Cable exec says here

[thewazak]

What Time Warner means is:
"You don't want gigabyte Internet AT OUR PRICES"!
Logically, if their pathetic 10k is as much as Google's hi-speed, then TW hi-speed will be exorbitant.

[lavalls12]

This is typical of Time Warner's attitude!! What they Time Warner does not state, that to get 30mpbs or 50 mpbs you need to use their very inferior Motorola Wireless router that wont work at all with Apple Imacs and barely works with Windows. Time Warner is a terrible, terrible Company. So for Irene's comment, that we dont want it,is pretty lame and as I said typical of a very poor company that was forced on us here in Los Angeles. And the really sad thing is they have a monopoly here in LA...The Execs at Time Warner are so far insulated from the public,they have not the foggiest idea what the consumer really wants or needs and their technical support is the worst in the business as is their phony offices that are always Out of Stock on cable boxes..Come back COMCAST!!!!!

[mcjny007]

Horse manure. they simply don't want to incur the costs of upgrading to that speed without passing off all of the costs to the consumers. This is my principal issues with these digital fiefdoms. They don't foster a competitive paradigm that gives the best product at the lowest price to the consumer. Why can't I have several vendors to choose from for this service rather than my location creating a virtual monopoly. Open up the field for competition and we will get the service that we need.

[nonnald]

Etherenet != Internet. Gigabit ethernet is very widely available, built into most routers and switches. Gigabit internet is offered by Google in Kansas City. Was this written by Good Morning America?

[Bob2300]

What is happening is internet compaines like Time Warner are keeping internet speeds down and making huge profits off of it. And as soon google puts out a decent internet speed for the price Time Warner covers its ASS saying that Americans don't need that fast of internet. American internet providers need to get their heads out of their asses and give Americans the internet speed that we deserve at a competive price instead of filling their pockets. It is self-serving bastards like Time Warner that are holding America back in the new world centered around the internet.

[HvonT]

Cablevision also trashes e-mails without notice. In addition, they arbitrarily decide that large mailings, such as to a club membership, are spam, and declines to deliver them, again without notice.

[eldapeeze]

Reminds me when Obama tells me what I want, and that I can't think for myself so he's going to continue forcing me to do things.

[19TCC56]

Users... well, this user, wants better speed but, most end users, IMO, if they have a job, are classified as "working poor"; COMCAST made the huge mistake of pricing top-tier GB speeds out of reach. I imagine the rest of the ISP industry has already done the same.

[WinTard]

PCWorld, on 28 February 2013 - 08:10 AM, said:

Post your comments for Users don't want gigabit Internet speeds, Time Warner Cable exec says here

ROFLMAO!

Well with friends like that at the helm of TWC, who needs enemies? Unfortunately for TWC, they are digging their own graves. Don't they understand unless they have a competitive offering to the first startup that offers Gigabit Internet, TWC is toast?!? Unfortunately, CFOs and technology don't mix. But nobody is buying CFOs. They want technology.

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[tawpower]

This just shows that Time Warner is hurting and it is all because of their own doing!! Bad tech. service, customers have to wait days to get a service tech. to come out and everything is overpriced. You even have to rent the DVR and equipment to get their service....sad!! Glad I dropped them 4 years ago for U-verse.

Love seeing the TWC commercial that says come back and see the improvement to their service.

So they admit that people left because of their service. I wouldn't go back until hell freezes over!!

[jtgmerk]

I think the best way to sum up the article is user want faster internet speed but feel that they are paying too much for what they have already. 50 to 100 mb in cities like Toyko or Hong Kong go for 30 to 40 a month. I would love to have this speed for this price, but i know it won't happen here in the US. As far as gigabit speeds, i would love it, but as the article stated the rest of the net is still too slow for it. Time Warner is overpriced, i agree with many other bloggers here.

[Swordsaint]

What TWC really means is that consumers aren't falling for their pricing "scheme."

Google's gigabit service at 1024 megs is $70 a month.

TWC is $75 per-a-month at "50 megs" of speed LOL.

Math is fundamental, but it seems to me like TWC is for lack of a better word, "A RIPOFF"

I think I'll wait and pray for Google to come to my town. In the mean time hopefully the rest of internet will be begin catching up. As Micky said to Rocky "We need more speed!! SPEEEED!!"

[KevinRemisoski]

The reality of the situation is fiber optic lines are much cheaper than coaxial cable lines, and no cable provider is going to promote fiber optics knowing full well that unless they upgrade their own infrastructure, they'll be out of business within the next ten years hoping to stay adrift much like some of the dial up companies have tried to.

[hackysackpro]

I think it does have to deal with the money. The problem is that it costs so much. Google is one of the top richest tech companies and can spend money on rolling out expensive fiber and take a loss in profit. Whereas TWC probably can't do that. I would think that if Google had only as much money as TWC, and they both rolled out gigabit, they would price it the same, which would be expensive for homes. So TWC is saying, it's too expensive for us to roll out gigabit right now because we would have to price it the way it should be in order to make a profit, meaning people wouldn't want it.

[lostviking]

"Esteves said only a sliver of TWC’s customer base subscribes to the ISP’s top-tier Internet speeds"

What he meant to say is that only a sliver of TWC's customer base can afford the outrageous prices you charge due to your complete government approved monopoly.

The GOVERNMENT gave TWC a monopoly. That is why you have no other choice but to use their service. Oh, and you are paying for that too!

[eoraptor2]

Do i want gigabit internet? not really. after all, most of the inets is still geared for users around the 6-20 mb level, so in order to make use of it, I'd have to have like 6 computers streaming all day long.

do I want better than the prisoner-rationed speeds and download caps I'm getting now? HELL YES.

as others have said, no one wants gigabit internet "at big telcom's prices" and I'm sure anyone with two.5 kids streaming netflix and playing wowcrack all day long during the summer, then yea, gigabit is pretty enticing.

I'm just waiting for the other shoo to drop and TIme Warner or Comcast to start suing municipalities that either get in bed with google or enact their own municiple networks as being "illegally anticpometitive" because you know it's coming.

[larryk1964]

What a dolt! Unfortunately, none of the "Reporters" will pick this up.

[larryk1964]

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What a dolt! Unfortunately, none of the "Reporters" will pick this up.

By reporters, I mean the story about users who don't like to be treated like children

[eih143]

I'm in one of the fiberhoods that will get the service this year. I have no idea what I will do with all that bandwidth. But by the time it's time for me to call TWC to disconnect my cable internet I will know how reliable Google's service really is. So for basically the same price I'll get a megaboost in the potential service speed. Sorry TWC, you can spin this all you want. It's doesn't change the basic supply demand curve of this. And it will be soooo good not to have to deal with those impolite people at TWC anymore ( I have to trek to their store in the hood every 12-18 months when their cable modems crap out.) It used to be more often when we had their TV service. But since switching to DirectTV no more boxes gone bad. And here's another benny of Google, all of their TV boxes are wireless routers too. As you go through the house with your device it seamlessly switches from one wirless point to another. The non-techy ladies in the house will love that:)