You Don’t Want Super-High-Speed Internet, Says Time Warner Cable

[struggle4progress]

By Klint Finley
02.28.13
2:48 PM

Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Irene Esteves says you don’t really want the gigabit speeds offered by Google Fiber and other high speed providers.

On Wednesday, at a conference in San Francisco, Esteves downplayed the importance of offering a service to compete with Google, as reported by The Verge. “We’re in the business of delivering what consumers want, and to stay a little ahead of what we think they will want…. We just don’t see the need of delivering that to consumers,” she said, referring to gigabit-speed internet connections.

Esteves thinks only business customers will need that kind of bandwidth, and she noted that Time Warner already offers gigabit connections for businesses in some markets.

Google rolled out its gigabit speed fiber optic service in Kansas City earlier this year. But big telcos like Verizon and Time Warner have been slow to match it. In fact, Verizon has frozen expansion of its much slower — and more expensive — fiber optic service, known as FiOS ...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/time-warner-cable/

[madokie]

1. We're paying 80 bucks a month for 7 mbps

60 bucks for the internet service and 20 bucks for the land line that we don't use but have to have in order to get internet from these ripoffs. Fairpoint sucks bigtime
Yeah you could say I want some of that gigabit speed. The thing is Google has a data center two miles down the road from me but somehow fairpoint doesn't allow any competition in our little town. Its fairpoint or cable or nothing.

[brooklynite]

16. Are you sure?

http://www.dslreports.com

There are usually MANY internet providers, but only your cable company and the major phone companies advertise, so people assume they don't have other options.

[madokie]

20. I'm positive

for some reason fairpoint has a lock on internet services here. I called at&t and they offer internet services all around this town but they don't here. I asked why and no one could or would tell me what the deal is. Friends 10 miles away get the same internet we have except from at&t and theirs cost 30 bucks a month with out a requirement of a land line phone.
my area code is 74337 if you want to try to help me find an alternate. Love it if you could but I've been trying for years now to no avail.
Tried cable but it really sucked. during the day the speed would be good but as soon as school let out the speed would start dropping until by 8 pm it would be 1. something mbps

[SunSeeker]

2. I get my internet through Time Warner Cable.

They suck. I have just been too lazy to change, since I have internet, cable and phone all bundled with Time Warner and would have to figure out who to go to for all that.

[Warpy]

3. DSL crawls compared to cable internet

but I've always found it fast enough to do what I need to do. It's also harder to hack than cable is.

Some heavy gamers and movie freaks would probably use the ultra fast Google setup. So would the people who upload videos and films. Time Warner is missing the bus if they think no home users would be interested. They would be.

[yends21012]

4. Irene Esteves can join the rest of the dumb predictors of technology

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. - Sydney Brenner in 1927.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949.

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year. The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.

But what... is it good for? An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product. Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. - Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977.

No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981.

[Renew Deal]

21. The last two were probably accurate at the time

[Scuba]

5. Nobody needs more than 640K of RAM.

[TheManInTheMac]

6. Nobody will even want computers at work, let alone in their home.

[Hugin]

12. Precisely.

lol

[redgreenandblue]

7. Translation: We don't want you streaming our shit.

[underpants]

13. or --- there isn't enough money in it out in the country

and hey who really needs it? I mean do you want business transactions and websites to run faster??? DO you want to take on-line courses or just learn about stuff???

[timdog44]

8. It is the old

we only give them what they want gig. We are the dummies and they are the only ones who know. We are the school children and will give them what we think they need. The US is so far behind the rest of the world in this, it is embarrassing. It all boils down to $$$.

[Rain Mcloud]

9. These idiots are running and ruining the country.

Alright,maybe not so much idiots as willful ignorance.
It's amazing that they clearly know so much about everyone and everything and that gives them the right to dictate to the government and you and me how much,what price and who lives or dies based upon earnings and share prices.

With authority comes responsibility,or is supposed to,but with these assclowns,they get a pass every time or bailed out.
Welcome to the laissez faire circus fun house.

[Agony]

10. It is time for a National Internet Cooperative owned by the people that use it.

since these fuckers won't install the last mile... cancel their permits for access to public airwaves.

[liberal N proud]

11. How refreshing, a corporation telling us what we DON'T want.

Usually a corporation is telling what we do want so we can spend more money. In this case, we have a corporation telling us what we don't want so we can continue to pay too much for so little while they don't have to invest anything to improve their already shitty service.

What a piece of shit!

[reformist2]

14. Actually, this might be good news - it's a sign prices might be coming down.

If people don't really want their new products, they'll either have to lower prices, or no longer offer the product at all. But I'm sure they can still make a profit at 2/3 the price they want...

[Earth_First]

15. Perhaps. What we DO want is high speed internet WITHOUT land line based telecommunications...

That is what the consumers DO want.

But go on with telling us what we DON'T want, TW...

[Aerows]

17. Does Time Warner

*actually* believe that people will fall for this "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" bullshit?

If they do, they are even dumber than this statement they just put out.

[KG]

18. that would require spending money the execs would rather have end up in their pockets.

[Renew Deal]

19. Time Warner is probably right about this for now

I don't have anything close to gigabit and I don't have an issue with performance or download speed. I'm sure that a lot more bandwidth would be nice to have, but there are few times that it would be useful for me. Especially if there is a big difference in cost.

[dembotoz]

22. they love to keep us a third world nation

service way to expensive
available from too few

[cbdo2007]

23. I'm in KC and it isn't the "super fast" internet I'm interested in......

I'm interested in the FREE 6 mbps internet (after $360 setup fee which is STILL less than a year of Time Warner) and I'm interested in a service that doesn't cut out ALL THE FREAKIN TIME!!! I have had TWC for my internet for the past 10 months and am finally switching next week because I just can't take it cutting out so much all the time and me having to call TWC to have them "reset" my house twice a month.

My friends who already have Google Fiber are saying that it NEVER cuts out!! Or if it does it's very rare. That's what I want - cheap, dependability for my internet service.