walls of the city (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
You know you might have watched too much Firefly when you see visitor hits from Beaumont, Texas, and accidentally read it as Beaumonde. Yeah.... my coat is kinda a brownish color, actually. Technorati Tags: firefly, beaumont, beaumonde...
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
BEAUMONT -- Since last June, KBTV 4 viewers have gotten to know Rocio Garza , a local weather person but more importantly, the first Hispanic woman to grace the screen of a Southeast Texas news station....
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
DALLAS, June 24, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Why would anyone say that learning the periodic chart and basic chemistry could be fun? And what's more, why on earth would anyone ride 3300 miles on a bicycle across the United States in JULY! Meet Richard James III, a native of Beaumont, Texas with a passion for both science education and finding a cure for cancer.
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Saw this through E&P in the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise . After Kamisha Block, 20, .......
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the importance of net neutrality. In the meantime, the first actual challenge to net neutrality took place this past week. Time Warner Cable has launched a trial tiered pricing program to new subscribers in Beaumont Texas. The tiers are “$29.95 a month for relatively [...]
Network Performance Daily (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
by Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Time Warner Cable has rolled out its plan to cap the data of high-speed Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas , a town about 20 miles west of the Louisiana border. The plans include $29.95/mo for 768kb/s downstream and a 5GB monthly cap - or $54.90/mo at 15Mb/s and 40GB monthly cap - with $1 additional charge for each GB above the cap. For comparison,...
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Posted by Dave Merten Time Warner Cable will launch a trial program on tomorrow which will impose monthly Internet consumption caps on new subscribers in Beaumont, Texas. Following a two-month grace period, cable users will pay $1 for each additional gigabyte consumed beyond the cap.
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
On Thursday, Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president, said the plan will be launched as a trial in Beaumont, Texas, and will consist of several tiers. The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per second with a 5GB monthly cap, while a plan at $54.90 per month will offer...
The Boy Genius Report (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
As we delve further into an age where more and more content is obtained and consumed digitally, Time Warner Cable seems to be doing everything it can to stifle progress. Residents of Beaumont, Texas are in for a treat later this week when Time Warner goes live with a new pilot for its cable internet [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
BEAUMONT, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Conn’s, Inc. (NASDAQ/NM:CONN), a specialty retailer of home appliances, consumer electronics, computers, lawn and garden
Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I think we should all be concerned about this. First, Time Warner is rolling out its long anticipated pay-per-use experiment in Beaumont, Texas. Closer to home here, Comcast is rolling out its “net neutral” plan in Chambersburg, PA and Warrenton,...
Chuck Newton (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
When you think that Beaumont, Texas of all places, the heart of cancer ally of the petro-chemical trade, and the town that was flattened by the last hurricane that hit the gulf coast, and an area made up of very moderate blue collar workers is going to be the place for the showdown between Time Warner Cable and the concept of the open Internet is a bid strang. Maybe Time Warner believes its antics...
Zatz Not Funny! (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Later this week Time Warner Cable will begin testing a broadband service cap of 40GB/month in Beaumont, Texas. Before I level my anti-competitive claim, let me say upfront that I’m not opposed to tiered pricing. Having some sort of threshold that separates the abusers, power users, and home businesses from “typical” consumer usage is fine [...]
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Time Warner rolled out data metering in Beaumont, Texas on Thursday, a development that might inspire many in the pro net neutrality regulation camp to cry foul. However, bandwidth metering is probably a fairer and more transparent way to deal with the vast disparities in usage amongst broadband subscribers. Rather than claiming “unlimited” [...]
Tech Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Time Warner Cable is going ahead with its test of metered Internet services, using Beaumont, Texas as the test market. As noted in several stories on this, Time Warner doesn't have much competition in Beaumont. The company can put the...
