Charter Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Time Warner Cable

Re:Charter Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Time Warner Cable by jusben1369 on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:55PM (#9601461)

I do wonder if the cable guys are going to go the way of the telephone landline via mobile. I can already get better speeds on my phone than most cable packages. They just need to increase the amount of traffic I can get and I'd drop the hardline service.

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Re:Charter Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Time Warner Cable by dimino on Monday May 25, 2015 @09:29PM (#9602491)

They're not even remotely comparable from a reliability or bandwidth standpoint, which is important for high quality streaming content (4k video from Netflix, for example).

These things will matter more as high quality content increases in availability. I also suspect you haven't recently tried to upload any amount of volume (photo albums, videos) on your mobile connection. I'd even consider it dangerous to compare the two, because the only folks I've ever seen consider them analogous are the ISPs themselves and only during takeover conversations, and only in reference to monopolies for service in particular areas (Comcast isn't your only option, you could also use your phone!).

Not to mention how completely untenable it is to play video games on a mobile connection.

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Re:Charter Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Time Warner Cable by tw04 on Monday May 25, 2015 @04:49PM (#9601688)

>They just need to increase the amount of traffic I can get and I'd drop the hardline service.

Which they will literally never do. They have no incentive to. The absurdly low caps allow them to consistently charge overage fees/print money.

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Re:Charter Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Time Warner Cable by untog on Monday May 25, 2015 @05:46PM (#9601867)

They have no incentive to.

They do, though. I pay ~$50 a month for my cable - if an LTE mobile operator offered a higher cap for even $45 a month it would be tempting to switch over.

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