 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | Would a cheaper price be cost possible? The article asks: "How about $18-$25 for a 3Mbps DSL or cable connection, with no e-mail and no support?"
This might well be attractive, but would the cost savings to the provider be worth it? As has been pointed out, much of the "fluff" that ISPs provide (mail, parental controls, entertainment news, DNS, etc.) are available for free or close to that elsewhere, meaning that these things are cheap to provide in bulk.
So, if you get rid of all this "fluff", the ISP saves MAYBE $5/month--probably less--more like $2/month. How in the world does that get you to a price point of $18-$25 for 3Mbps?
(This is also why Detroit doesn't build stripped down versions of large cars--the people who are really interested in such minor cost savings aren't buying the product capable of handling large volumes--they're driving econo-boxes, the equivalent of dial-up.)
calvoiper
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