Time Warner Cable to try out some social blackmail

Back on April 14th I wrote a post about Time Warner implementing metered broadband in certain test area and how I thought it was a bad idea. I wasn’t the only one to write about and in the resulting furor it seemed as if Time Warner had reconsidered the whole idea, even if only temporarily. As everyone was patting themselves on their backs it appears that Time Warner went onto Plan B.

Because of all the bitching Time Warner has also decided to reconsider its deployment of super-fast broadband in San Antonio and Austin, Texas; Greensboro, N.C.; and Rochester, New York. As Time Warner said to Stacey Higginbotham in an email reply

A Time Warner Cable spokesman says the cable company was planning to roll out DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades as part of its consumption-based broadband trials, but it’s now “reevaluating whether or not the trial cities are among those places” scheduled for DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts. As for rolling out next its next-generation cable network, Time Warner has been making vague statements but so far hasn’t laid out any definitive plans.

So in other words you don’t let us cap your asses we won’t let you have really cool high speed broadband like most of the rest of the world. Nice play Time Warner – nice play.

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