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Time Warner Cable has reached a
settlement in a lawsuit, and the result
may be a month’s free cable service for
affected cable customers in and around
Wake Forest and other areas.
The lawsuit, Parker, et
al. v. Time Warner Entertainment Co., et
al., claimed the cable company sold
the personal information of some
subscribers to other companies for
marketing without informing them how
they were using that information as
required by law.
Time Warner has denied it
broke the law, but the parties agreed to
the settlement to avoid the costs and
risks they might incur in a trial.
The affected customers are
those who subscribed to the cable
service at any time between Jan. 1, 1994
and Dec. 31, 1998, and were on the list
of those whose information may have been
sold.
Wake Forest Town Manager
Mark Williams said this week he knows
little more than was revealed in the
press release about the settlement, but
he has “poked around” in the web
site.
The settlement must be
approved by a court before it goes into
effect, Williams said.
If the court agrees, then
Time Warner will notify the affected
customers by mail and give them the
information needed to claim the month’s
free service.
Williams said his
understanding is the affected customers
will be able to receive a month of
“something you don’t have now,” such as
Roadrunner.
“It will probably be more of
a hassle than anything,” Williams said,
but he also said he will claim the month
if his name is on the list of affected
customers. |
