http://www.laurentk.com/2008/01/time-warner-cable-pricing-structure/ about everything, and especially the rest Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.laurentk.com/2008/01/time-warner-cable-pricing-structure/#comment-12 Miki Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:56:47 +0000 http://www.laurentk.com/2008/01/time-warner-cable-pricing-structure/#comment-12 It reminds me of what Cybercable (local French cable ISP) tried to do at the end of the 90s, putting a 125MB upload limit with their cable subscription. The additional MB was around 0,20$ if I remember well. First month, hundreds of users got an incredible bill of a few hundred dollars. Very quickly their offer was completely outdated compared to xDSL offers that were 100% unlimited and with higher bandwidth. Give them a couple of months and they will realize how uncompetitive their offer is. By the way, the very famous "5% users use 95% of the ressources" is just a reality for every ISP I know and they probably will never change it, unless they chose their users one by one. It reminds me of what Cybercable (local French cable ISP) tried to do at the end of the 90s, putting a 125MB upload limit with their cable subscription. The additional MB was around 0,20$ if I remember well. First month, hundreds of users got an incredible bill of a few hundred dollars.
Very quickly their offer was completely outdated compared to xDSL offers that were 100% unlimited and with higher bandwidth. Give them a couple of months and they will realize how uncompetitive their offer is.
By the way, the very famous “5% users use 95% of the ressources” is just a reality for every ISP I know and they probably will never change it, unless they chose their users one by one.

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