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Re: "5 gallon paint bucket"? said by Duramax08:Holy shit, thats quite large to have on the side of your house or roof.
i wonder if it actually an advertising/marketing gimmick.
people will see these giant paint bucket and wonder what they are. |
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MTUPremium
join:2005-02-15
San Luis Obispo, CA | VZW To the profligate experts: What percentage of the VZW infrastructure is subsidized by tax write-offs and subsidies?
What percentage of VZW's promised buildout has actually been achieved? |
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 TMMerlinThe Devil made me do it
join:2003-06-19
Oxford, MI
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| LOL n-wannah puke ! They are absolutely "nuts" ..!
I think rural customers will stick with Sat-TV and if it were me, get the basic service cap for $60/mo. It's a big jump from dial-up and much better than landline DSL.
But for overall broadband .. no way .. !
Streaming video and music are out with this service !
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talos4
join:2002-01-30
Manassas, VA | reply to CXM_Splicer
Re: A 10 GB cap? What a joke. Presuming satellite would be available to most as well, it would be another duopoly. If no satellite, then i agree they will be a monopoly for the time being. In theory, the first to market with any new service would be a monopoly. Those areas will have some competition if AT&T or another wireless service provider deploys a similar product. |
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| Double the bandwidth? Seems the article you linked to says they get 50% extra not 100% extra. |
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Re: A 10 GB cap? What a joke. said by fiberguy:said by 45612019:No. They're paid for by having numerous subscribers forking out $60 or more a month for service.
Implementing low bandwidth caps with high overage fees is completely unnecessary to recoup deployment costs. That's what the subscriber fee is for. Vastly marked up bandwidth overage fees are just an opportunity to price gouge the consumer.
Have you ever run a company? .. it sure doesn't sound like it. According to you, the activist however, anything that doesn't fit your agenda by any company is going to be foul. Towers, power, backhaul, employees, workmans comp, insurance (health and liability) taxes of all sorts, advertising, customer service, installation expenses, maintenance, the data itself, government affairs, the cost of spectrum, fuel, vehicle maintenance, the list goes on.. those are expenses.. and as someone that DOES run a business I can tell you that arguments that people like you make just irritate the hell out of me. You think you have it all figured out.. you think it's all about bandwidth. Oh, and they are allowed to make a profit too. Now please, go on to tell me how all the stuff I mentioned above has nothing to do with the cost of providing the service, for one reason or another. I don't know where you people get these figures and formulas you come up with to justify your position, but you're FAR FAR FAR off the mark most of the time. But yea.. it's all about punitive caps and overages so they can gouge the consumer.  you gotta remember though that the majority of people on here do not/have not run their own business so they only look at stuff through a consumer point of view so it's understandable why people are uninformed and have no clue about underlying expenses
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join:2004-07-11
Cobbs Creek, VA
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Re: LOL n-wannah puke ! Dish works for me TV wise. My local Wisp that I'm getting a 5/2 connection works great too. And yes, I'm rural. No problems here, and I get the freedom of NOT living in a smelly, crime driven, noisy, crowded, hot, sweaty, concrete and asphalt boiling pot city.
Yeah, I like living "rural". Try it ... you'll like it.
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Re: A 10 GB cap? What a joke. said by 45612019:Five times? Try 500 times.
If you believe Verizon is paying anything more than an average of 2 cents/gig for Internet traffic then you've been brainwashed.
can you give real, cold hard solid evidence to back that up that it only costs 2 cents a gig to deliver internet traffic or are you just doing what Karl does and guessing and making assumptions |
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | reply to iFail 5G
Where I live used to be rural. I can see center city Philadelphia from my back deck yet I still have a well & a septic tank.
My well is 700ft deep (no bullshit). So, the water is a little hard, but I just run it through a Zero Water pitcher and it's awesome...
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CXM_SplicerLooking at the bigger picturePremium
join:2011-08-11
NYC
kudos:1 | reply to talos4
Yes, true... I forgot about satellite. So they will have some limiting factor in their pricing. I bet that the overhead for satellite (no pun intended) is much higher than for fixed LTE and that Verizon will be able to profit accordingly. |
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Re: Twice nothing is still nothing said by mlcarson:So, it'll be $960 per month for the same thing DSL or Cable Modems offer for 5-10% of that cost.
Look at the subscribers per square mile. In the city, sure you can make back your investment fairly quickly since you have so many people using it.
Out in the sticks, not so much. I work for a 100 year old local phone company. We offer DSL because the copper has been out there for 50 years. Other outfits wont come into our area because the number of subscribers per square mile can not justify the cost of the equipment to offer their service. While the locals would love competition, its just not feasible. |
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Re: A 10 GB cap? What a joke. Why do people consider Birmingham "rural"? I mean its a city of at 200K+ people (i know thats not large but still sizable). Or are they referring to the surrounding area? |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | Pointless If you are one of the few who can't get anything at home, better to buy someone else's unlimited contract and use MHS. |
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| specs of the can does this 5 gallon bucket really boost signal or something? i'd like to see the specs on it. |
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| specs on the can so what does this can do exactly....signal boost? if so how much, anyone have the specs on this bad boy? |
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| How totally overpriced and sad. For $120 a month I get 155 Mbps down and 65 Mbps up via FiOS plus unlimited bandwidth.
And Verizon thinks its on the cutting edge offering 30Gb's a month for $120?
What a fucking joke. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | reply to CXM_Splicer
Re: A 10 GB cap? What a joke. So VZ is damned if they do, damned if they don't? |
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yeah, they should run wires into every house and maintain that infrastructure....instead of a towers servicing hundreds of people at a time.
this is why they aren't running fiber anymore, towers are much cheaper to keep operating with hundreds of techs than thousands of techs servicing house calls. |
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 mech1164I'll Be Back
join:2001-11-19
Lodi, NJ | reply to 45612019
said by 45612019:That post was unworthy of a rebuttal.
The minute someone starts harping about the government and stereotyping any civilized area as being some gang war shootout zone you know you're dealing with a conservative.
Oh that's a bunch of CR@P. It just shows your political leanings. You inferred they were conservative. Nothing that was said could be construed that way unless that's what you think all people think that way are that. You lost that argument before you even opened yor trap. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | reply to clarknova156
Re: How totally overpriced and sad. Is FiOS available in the markets that this service is being offered? What other options exist in these markets? |
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