Not an Un-FU TW post.

This is not a post to lather about Time Warner's "we listened to our customers" forthcoming bullshit.

Wait for it. It will come.

It is though an opportunity for Senator Chuck to slip in and make the official announcement just ahead of the not so super secret Town Supervisors meeting with TW and this weekend's scheduled protest.

Rep. Eric Massa gets a press release and some Facebook time and according to reports on the blogosphere the cap is dead. Sans StoptheCap.com whose server appears to be down again.

Even StoptheCap's Phillip Dampier's headline reads We Won! Time Warner Killing Usage Caps “In All Markets” while the body copy says "Time Warner has shelved its broadband tiering nightmare." The same language was also used by the always lovely Rachel Barnhart from 13WHAM.

To me shelved and dead are two very different things.

Feel good for now, but a rebranding is sure to be in full force as I type.

So consider this a preemptive fuck you to Time Warner. Sans silly fabricated cartoon mashup, of course, cause this one's straight from he heart.

UPDATE: 3:55 Well that did take long for A. 13WHAM to change the language of the text or B. the following TW press release:

NEW YORK, NY --Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) today announced it would alter plans to test Consumption Based Billing, shelving the trials while the customer education process continues.

Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt said, “It is clear from the public response over the last two weeks that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about our plans to roll out additional tests on consumption based billing. As a result, we will not proceed with implementation of additional tests until further consultation with our customers and other interested parties, ensuring that community needs are being met. While we continue to believe that consumption based billing may be the best pricing plan for consumers, we want to do everything we can to inform our customers of our plans and have the benefit of their views as part of our testing process.”

Time Warner Cable also announced that it is working to make measurement tools available as quickly as possible. These tools will help customers understand how much bandwidth they consume and aid in the dialog going forward.

Britt added, “We look forward to continuing to work with Senator Schumer, our customers and all of the other interested parties as the process moves forward, to ensure that informed decisions are made about the best way to continue to provide our customers with the level of service that they expect and deserve from Time Warner Cable.”

What, no mention of Rep. Massa. in the release? MeThinks someone's on the TW shit list.