Matt
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|  No Political Arguments Please
The recession isn't as dire as a lot of folks would have you believe. Most companies did have to trim their budgets and shore up their balance sheets, but aside from the financial industry and the car industry (that has always teetered on the brink of failure), the majority of other industries are doing just fine. This is further proof of that.
Historically, this recession is no worse than ones we've experienced throughout history. Although it is creeping toward being one of the longest recessionary periods we've had, it's nowhere near being one of the deepest. |
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Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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| WOW...
Those are some impressive numbers.
300,000 new PHONE customers is unreal for one quarter.
And 329k new broadband customers?...that's hitting it out of the park.
It's amazing really how they have become the nations 3rd largest phone company..completely transforming themselves into that as well.
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baineschile
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Sterling Heights, MI | All that money...
Lets get the 100/100 plan going already!!! Spend to upgrade
100 Hd stations
100/100 MB internet.
Seriously though, it just goes to show, that in hard times, people will still spend on TV and internet (and VoIP) |
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JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL | reply to Rick
Re: WOW...
More impressive is the number below.
Business Services- 47% increase in quarterly revenue to $176 million. |
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baineschile
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Re: No Political Arguments Please
How many articles are you reading on MSN and CNN on how to "trim the bills in this economic crunch"? One thing that is always on the list is cutting down, or out in some cases, Television. Kudos to UVerse, FiOS, and now Comcast for proving that people WANT TV and Internet, and are willing to cut out other amenities in their life. |
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Rick
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Re: WOW...
said by JSRoman  :More impressive is the number below. Business Services- 47% increase in quarterly revenue to $176 million. impressive yes. But because it's coming off a much smaller base the percentage increase tends to be larger.
With the others you're talking about more mature businesses with many more customers. So those gains I think tend to be even more impressive.
In any event..they're really doing one helluva job all around I think.
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MalibuMaxx
join:2007-02-06
Chesterton, IN
·Comcast
| recession = entertainment
ultimately thats what it comes down to...
And anyone with a rational judgement sees that paying a little more for a at home service is cheaper than going to the movies. Also gaming is big with the recession hit. Everyone wants to get out of their current situation so for a few hours they can with entertainment that comcast offers. |
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Rick
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Re: All that money...
If comcast comes out with a 100Mb..$99 tier with their final d3 plans I just think it's all over for both uverse AND fios.
They will be everywhere so much sooner than the competition and it will be years in some cases where anyone can compete with that. They'll set a new standard nationwide and it's hard to see why anyone really would switch or what could be compelling enough about these other services to cause them to want to. Obviously that doesn't include people who have poor service for whatever reason but I'm talking about the majority of people and how it will impact these other companies.
What people aren't really realizing here is how expensive things like fios is to roll out. And how time consuming it is. And all the while they're losing these massive numbers of phone customers and dsl customers. The very heart of their companies is being eaten out from under them while they're spending massive amounts of money to try to replace it. And that is not a formula for business success. If anything..it's comcast who gets to grow stronger because of it and allows them unprecedented ability to then enter a price war when this is all said and done.
I've said it before and will say it again. Docsis 3.0 is to DDR what fios is to Rambus. Maybe fios is the better technology when it comes to the specs..but that doesn't mean they win the market race. Price and availability is what wins that. And if they're looking now at a nationwide d3 rollout by this year or next..it's going to be amazingly difficult to ever stop them.
And these numbers posted today just prove it once again.
It really is quite the business success story I think.
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blips
join:2001-04-17
Addison, IL | What about the caps? When people start hitting their caps they will move to the service without them. |
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Rick
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| said by blips :What about the caps? When people start hitting their caps they will move to the service without them. Comcast has shown though to be very responsive to that as well.
250 gigs compared to all we've read around this website is a HUGE number and really is there to stop the abusers from affecting the rest of us. And remember, that's with existing capacity and infrastructure.
When d3 is rolled out nationwide and higher speeds are the norm personally i'd suspect they'll be even more flexible.
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ptrowski
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Putnam, CT
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Over for uverse, possibly.
Over for FIOS? Hardly. |
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SLD
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join:2002-04-17 | Gotta do something...
...when you're sitting home, unemployed. |
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bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | reply to Matt
Re: No Political Arguments Please
It might be that people have nothing else to do than watch TV since they have no jobs. I have a job so I trim my costs. If I was unemployed I'd bump up my channel lineup. |
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Artec
join:2003-02-23
Middletown, NJ
| reply to Rick
Re: All that money...
Comcast will over take FIOS with a 100mb tier? R u kidding me? In my neighborhood alone. at least 1/2 of the houses have gone to FIOS from comcast and a good part of those who I know who got it will NEVER GO back to comcraptic
Cable is dying unless they crap an get of the pot and move to fiber |
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fiberguy
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join:2005-05-20
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Re: WOW...
I'm not surprised on Business Class Service products... the phone and internet offering is INCREDIBLE from comcast vs. telco who CONTINUES to rape business.
Comcast Business Class example:
1 DOCSIS 3.0 22/5 (Statics)
3 Dialtones - national service
---------------> $160.00 per month.
To a small business, that's an incredible savings over the average telco offering.
Qwest Comparable:
1 DSL 1.5/896 - $65.00 (No statics)
3 Dialtone - Local unlimited service $35.00 each
3 Long distance - Unlimited $35.00 each
(Does not include voice mail and only 3 calling features)
---------------> $275.00 per month. plus taxes up the butt
Comcast is tapping an under-served market that has long been way over charged. I've found on average, a 6 line phone service for a good sized small business often runs upwards of $550. One advantage that cable has over telco is that when you purchase your primary line with long distance, they all have it. Telephone charges you PER line still, which is absurd these days.
Like people call for cable to do, telco needs to evolve, but for some reason, won't. |
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fiberguy
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Re: All that money...
said by ptrowski :Over for uverse, possibly. Over for FIOS? Hardly. Why do you say that? JUST becuase it's "Fiber" service doesn't make Verizon's FiOS service anything special.
It's not ALL about the connection. Verizon still has a horrible rap for pricing, billing, customer service, and that they play games with their customer's services and what they can do with it.
Just becuase FiOS seems to be fairly straight forward, that's for now.. don't think for once moment that as they migrate people over to a FiOS offering that they will move the game to FiOS from their traditional services. Prices are already going up with FiOS.. and, well, people just don't forget how they were treated in the past by ANY provider.
To this day, I give Qwest/US West as LITTLE of my business as I have to. I have stand alone DSL with them and that's it! I'd much rather tie two cans and string together than use their dial tone ever again.
Further, when it comes to Verizon, stop and think with out blinders on for a moment. They treat their classic services one way. FiOS is under a whole other set of rules and pricing/offerings. Its the same company.. why do you think FiOS is treated any different? ... becuase they want to sell it. They're not being good guys and treating FiOS any different to be nice.. they're doing it to make it attractive, right now. In 10 years, lets have this talk and see how wonderful Verizon treats FiOS people. |
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fiberguy
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| reply to Artec
... and I'd bet that half of those 1/2 of houses in your area don't even know what the difference between fiber vs coax much less what each are.
In your case, it's about reliability, which I will give FiOS service and reputation, which comcast has a bad on in Jersey. It's not about the fiber. That's just, well, it all just comes out one's arse! |
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ptrowski
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Putnam, CT
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| reply to fiberguy
Comcast has the same rap for pricing, billing, etc. That usually comes with just about any large company. Some are better than others, but let's not try to say that comcast's CS is on a higher tier than VZ.
I am looking for a pure technology aspect. Uverse will not be able to compete with the OOL, Comcast, Verizon on a speed basis. It just won't and can't happen.
We have seen what Fios has done in competing markets and it is impressive. Look at the recent "victory" so to speak in the metered billing arena.
Is Fios the magic bullet to our need for speed? Hardly. But in scalabilty etc D3 will not in my opinion kill Fios. It just won't happen.
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
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join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
| reply to Rick
said by Rick :said by blips :What about the caps? When people start hitting their caps they will move to the service without them. 250 gigs compared to all we've read around this website is a HUGE number and really is there to stop the abusers from affecting the rest of us. ummmm... Hello, it's not about abuse. 
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baineschile
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Sterling Heights, MI | reply to blips
Increased speed doenst mean increased volume.
Just because you buy a faster car, doesnt mean you will drive further in a month. |
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