Anon | reply to deepthroat1
Re: Down with SBC! I will have to disagree. Other than ISPs who are partnered with SBC, not many people realize what the price situation is. As the owner of a partnered ISP I can explain: SBC sells the loop component, the portion which they have a monopoly over, to ISPs for $39/month (there are another $60 in back-end T-1 and Virtual Path charges that I won't even bring into the discussion). Then, Pac Bell Internet sells the ISP component for 95 cents bringing the total bill to $39.95/month for the consumer.
I can't imagine a business plan where an ISP could survive selling the Internet access anywhere close to 95 cents. Pac Bell gets away with it because they are subsidized by SBC's monopoly who they are wholly owned by.
By comparison, Verizon sells the loop for $32.50 to ISPs and Verizon Online charges around $16.50 for the Internet access. This is a plan we can work with and have some competitive chance against.
SBC is abusing it's power. It's as simple as that. |
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| SBC isn't selling DSL internet for $39.95- those contracts are ending in these few months ahead of us. It is currently $49.95 for 768/128 access.
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| said by boogie74:
SBC isn't selling DSL internet for $39.95- those contracts are ending in these few months ahead of us. It is currently $49.95 for 768/128 access.Boogie74
RBOC's are going to need more attractive pricing to compete with cable, and that may be below ISP cost. Otherwise, RBOC DSL will be a niche market with limited potential. AT&T cable gave as much as six months free service to meet growth projections in this region, and they didn't have any real competition. ISP's need to sink or swim in unregulated markets, just like CLECS and RBOC's. If congress wanted welfare for ISP's , they wrote the wrong legislation.
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