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Comments on news posted 2003-04-29 09:16:30: Customers in our Verizon forum are gleefully reporting that the company is upgrading DSL subscribers in many areas to a higher speed for less money. According to this ongoing thread, customers with 768/128 DSL lines, many of whom are paying $39. ..
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 mrs213
join:2002-05-25
Pittsburgh, PA
| True Competition. Beautiful. See, this is how a competitive market works, and how the RBOCs can win this entire war.
I moved from an Adelphia area in Pittsburgh (suburbs) to a Comcast area (city proper). My loop length dropped from 20Kft. to 4500 ft. (in urban areas, 10Kft. is LONG). Comcast is still pulling the same shit: nearly $60/mo. for a cable modem, without CATV service. I don't watch much TV at all (just movies), so no TV for me. What's Verizon giving me?
Local tone: $15/mo.
DSL (1.5M/128K): $35/mo.
TOTAL: $50/mo
Wait. That's cheaper than Comcast, isn't it?
No contract, no rate increase, no nothing. Great price, fast service, no bullshit. I even get an emergency phone (I use a cell for my primary phone) in case of power outages/911/the like.
THIS, right here, is how it's going to be done. The war was never between the CLECs and RBOCs (none of the CLEC pricing/terms could compete, unless you want SDSL, and I don't care). It's between cable and telco. Frankly, they keep dropping the price like this, and they can battle this one out all they want. | |
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Toppil
Premium
join:2000-12-30
clubs: | How To Tell? Is there a way to tell how far I am from the CO without calling them? | |
| sarreq2
join:2003-02-12
Philadelphia, PA | Whooohoo!!! but does anyone know what cities will be benefitting from the speed increase? is it all areas within 1200ft of a CO or just some? | |
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