I just got email from freepress which supports save the Internet organization. I have good news for people who use video phone and deaf students in NTID that use video phone heavily that were upset about Time Warner is going to try reduce them to use Internet. Now they can take an action to prevent Time Warner to takes advantage of customers. Save the Internet and Free press is taking an action now and offering people to join, too. All people including deaf people are encouraged to join and protest against Time Warner. Take an action right away!
Freepress's content:
http://www.freepress.net/node/56030
Whoever want share with their friends, go to http://free.convio.net/site/Ecard?ecard_id=1981 but please read freepress's content about it first.
The form requires you to write your own personal note and you are not sure how to write it. Just get idea what I had wrote:
I know that customers have right to use internet as much as they need. There are million deaf people use video phone heavily to communicate in America Sign Language. If you allow it happens, it will influence other companies in the world that will hurt people's right to communicate each other. Please take an action and stop Time Warner from taking advantage of them.
Note: please do not copy exact way I wrote.
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I agree that many potential companies regardless small.medium and large out there HAVE TO STOP fiddling around the idea of discriminating, limiting the accessibility/service to all of us, deaffies/hoh law-abiding citizen in America.
We have done aboustely WRONG and never put a curse, nor limitation to hearing community, their people, their life, etc... Think it's fair????
Now it's time for hearies to totally MATURE UP!!!!!!!!!! I mean it!!!!!!! We have been suffering non-stop discrimination coming in from hearies esecpially SINCE adam &eve period of time.
Better yet, You hearies find it so EXICTING contintuing that stupid eye-rolling abuse toward us all the time???? What's wrong with you, airhead, clueless, brainless hearies out there???? While we, diversity of people could easily spot plenty of errors, trails, problem in your (hearing) communities!
I'm curious... how much Internet usage limitation does the Time-Warner limit their customers each month, if any?
Comcast has it too, but its limitation is way plenty of Internet usage for their customers so therefore it doesn't consider me esp other deaf Comcast users at all... only very few ones who over-exceed their usage; if so, those will be charged.
Hope that it won't hurt those deaf customers who use Time-Warner. We heard about it yet it gave out so limit of information so if anyone knows the answer, please post it here.
http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/time-warner-begins-bandwidth-meter-trial.html
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090331_726397.htm
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52966
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/01/time-warner-expands-metered-broadband-rollout/
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105557
I found them through google. If you want more information, google it up.
Thanks for your time and the links, Sharyn!
"In the Internet bandwidth meter trial, Time Warner is setting caps at 5, 10, 20 and 40-gigabytes of monthly Internet use, beyond which it will charge users $1 per gigabyte."
Ouch! Therefore it definitely is real bad news for the TW users... very limited not like Comcast's 250 GB per month limit which is really enough for average deaf users but not enough for those who use Time-Warner.
So deaf TW users really do something about this after all! Hope that they listen and do something mere fair for the deaf people who use vp. Wish 'em luck!
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