Verizon Pricing Changes > Poor non-Fios people

Poor non-Fios people

They're just doing the same thing SBC has been doing forever - offering a big incentive to keep people locked in a contract. It keeps people from taking limited time offers from the cable company, or making snap decisions to switch ISPs.

It's interesting that the cable industry takes such a polar opposite approach. I suppose cable is cheaper to provision, that might be part of it.
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\\ROB - a part of the SCB local network

reply to ColdFiltered
Yeah, too bad BellSouth does care about keeping people. They are the most expensive of the bunch. It would be nice if SBC bought them and offered $29.95/month DSL in Atlanta.

reply to djrobx
Actually, that's the main reason I choose the cableco's offering. Being a student (unstable income) and frequent file-trader (always "looking over your shoulder"...), Plus the ones I've used were usually the only ones not implementing outbound tcp:25 blocks. Though a lot of people on this board tell of the advantages of n-tuple-play, and savings through contracts, I prefer not to have a "Single Point of Failure" in my entertainment and utilities. It'd be interesting to see how many others feel the same.

reply to djrobx
What's odd is they basically pissed away a paying ADSL customer and his landline that was provisioned and long payed for itself because of moving house syndrome. Read my other messages, I just got knocked down from 1.5/384 to 768/128 while my home moved early AM on friday. I wonder how I slept through that!

I don't mind the price increase. But they cut my speed by 1/2 downstream and 2/3 upstream on a line which was pure cream, it paid for itself AGES ago and at the same time gave me an incentive to get rid of the landline.

Silly.
Arrogant.
Unprofessional.

And yes I called, and jumped through some hoops but "you're now 17,000 feet sir, and the best we can offer you is 768/128".

David