{"id":1121,"date":"2009-06-16T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/time-warner-with-a-capital-tea.html"},"modified":"2009-06-16T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:12:00","slug":"time-warner-with-capital-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/time-warner-with-capital-tea.html","title":{"rendered":"Time Warner with a Capital Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lest you think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/here-it-comes-again.html\">Time Warner is the only one in public denial<\/a> over their plans to create non-competitive markets for their video products, apparently our friends across the pond are <a href=\"http:\/\/fastnetnews.com\/dslprime\/42-d\/1758-bt-heavily-throttling-bbc-all-video\">having similar issues with British Telecom<\/a>.  While BT is claiming bandwidth problem too, its solution is a little more directly at their true issue.  Rather than trying to charge high volume users extra fees, they are simply throttling every user&#8217;s bandwidth during prime time in an effort to make TV quality video online all but unwatchable in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, it was just 2 years ago that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20070413\/011103.shtml\">BT was advocating net neutrality<\/a> and stating that bandwidth problems were unforeseeable.  But with their TV service losing revenue, they needed to manufacture a problem in order to boost the content side of their business.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting point in the article about BT is that the average cost of actually providing broadband service to a home is about $1\/month per customer.  This is not a BT specific number, but is considered an average across all ISP providers.  Think about that next time you pay your cable bill.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot is that TWC is hardly alone in trying to gouge its ISP customers in non-competitive markets in an effort to boost the bottom line of its other businesses.  But that still doesn&#8217;t make it right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest you think Time Warner is the only one in public denial over their plans to create non-competitive markets for<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/time-warner-with-capital-tea.html\" title=\"Read Time Warner with a Capital Tea\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}