Letter to Time Warner Cable

A large corporation lying?<p>No, not possible!<p>Of course, this is just to maximize profit at all costs.<p>It may be anathema here, but I believe corporations -- especially those granted a government monopoly -- should have more than a duty to increase shareholder value, because in the process of increasing shareholder value they may make the entire world vastly worse for everyone else.<p>No, I don't have any good answers on how to square that circle, but it seems a pretty obvious point if you ignore the knee-jerkers.

I was just talking with a buddy of mine about this last night. He lives in Rochester, NY where TWC has some sort of exclusive agreement. Apparently, they've capped bandwidth at something ridiculously low a month, but you can pay another $30/mo to blast that cap up to... 40GB/mo!<p>Oh, and as a show of charity, they capped the max overage charges you can be billed at $75/mo for this special plan which already costs $75/mo. So, basically, you can get unlimited bandwidth for $150/mo. What a steal!

I live in New York, so I'm quite familiar with TWC. The executives at Time Warner seem to think they're running a vacuum company and that, therefore, their objective is to suck as much as possible. Someone needs to be a good citizen and send them a memo reminding them of the contrary.