Thanks for posting this link. I live in Austin and I have been following this story for a few months. Fortunately some areas of Austin have two choices for Cable and Internet, Time Warner (TW) and AT&T. I spent the last two years looking for a home and I hate to tell you that Internet and cable providers played an important role in where I looked. the home that I chose has AT&T fiber and TW cable. I have not decided which one to use yet but I do have a limited choice.
Austin is very tech savvy like Portland so this is why TW is trying to take Austin out first so that resistance will be futile for the other less techie towns. There is a resistance movement her in Texas that is fighting TW. Keep up the good work. Lonnie the lurker Michael Weinberg wrote: > MacWorld has a cogent critique of Time Warner's plans for metered > broadband access: > http://www.macworld.com/article/140032/2009/04/costliercablefromtimewarner.html > > The gist of the article is that TW is using metered access to create a > status quo where it is too costly to get Entertainment content over > the Internet, so they can maintain their monopolies, not on fast > Internet access, but on content delivery to the home. > > I think that the best salve for the current situation is to build open > access networks, ideally fiber networks, that exist to encourage > competition and aim to deliver the services that the public wants, at > prices that are fair to both the customer and the service provider. > > Even if you don't agree with me about fiber, this article is a good > read to remind us why community networks have value, in whatever form > they may take. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
