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Comments on news posted 2012-01-26 18:35:06: Both AT&T and Verizon saw continued strong growth in wireless in this week's earnings reports, but took a bit of a beating in terms of DSL subscriber counts in their un-upgraded markets and overall broadband growth. ..
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  PacketeersPremium
join:2005-06-18
Forest Hills, NY
kudos:1
 ·Time Warner Cable
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| it's aDSL's own fault in my market i have Verizon aDSL and TWCable RR.
FiOS is nearby, but won't build by me till 2014.
while both offer $20/mo deals to new subscribers
aDSL is $40/mo while faster Cable is $30/mo.
aDSL has 1yr contracts, Cable Month to Month.
all Verizon has to do is treat existing customers
better, and they'll keep them on aDSL, but instead
they have aggravating India based support processes,
and keep charging you more than Cable, even though
their own cost to maintain the system is negligible.
I know this, because I'm an internet only customer,
about to leave Verizon after 8 years - for Cable.
the ONLY fear I have of Cable is I won't enjoy the
same low Latency rates I have with aDSL - trivial. | |
| | | I actually like DSL Personally I like DSL, and if they could get the speeds up i'd prefer it over cable.
They probably lost customers because of the bandwidth cap's more then lack of speed.
I know in my area they only offered me 3mpbs.. which is pretty slow now days, And I live within spitting distance of a major city.
but the service was rock solid I could count the outages on one hand over 7 years.
But when they put the bandwidth caps in place and I got a letter in Nov I left them in Dec for roadrunner which is cheaper at least for a year.. what i'll do when the year is up remains to be seen hopefully the market will have improved.
instead of ATT 3mpbs/512 for $35
I was getting ripped off they would never let me get any of the promotion deals cause I was an existing customer.
to road runner 10mpbs/1mpbs for $20
Road runner is a lot faster on some sites, you tube for example I can actually pull MORE then 10mpbs.. more like 15 usually.
but on a lot of sites it's much less like 4-5mpbs.
I noticed some sites are even less then I was getting with DSL
So cable is seems a lot more sparatic, where as with DSL it was slower but It's speed was very consistent.
Also the non stop flood of ARP data drives me nuts as my modem light is constantly going crazy even when idle.
Overall though im happy with the switch to roadrunner not as consistent but when it's faster overall for less money. | |
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