| Low-Fat Broadband I really think that there should be cable HSI lite tiers to convert dial-up customers. DSL is the only broadband option that actually advertise their lite tiers. And if people can get DSL then they will eventually get those dial-up customers.
A lot of people will NOT get cable HSI because of the high price. People would rather stay with dial-up because it's much cheaper. And if customers can get DSL at very cheap prices then they will go to DSL if they can actually get the service.
The phone companies really need to speed up DSL deployment and get it to 100% of it's customers so they can actually beat cable companies.
Also, the download for any lite tier needs to be at least 768Kbps or 1.5Mbps.
There will be some customers who will downgrade to the lite tiers to save money. But, at the same time the cable companies could gain a lot of dial-up customers. Plus the customers who do downgrade may actually upgrade if things get better with their budgets.
You first have to get customers hooked on broadband and if they really like it they may actually upgrade from the lite tiers. |
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| If cable offered a low end 1.5mb package to me for 25 a month I'd take it. I like 400k a second downloads but its not a requirement for me. |
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | That's the ironic part of this...SBC (for example) has 3008/512 kbps for that $25. After protocol overhead you see about 2500/430 on speed tests, or 315/55 kilobytes/sec on transfers.
Yet, Comcast et. al. seem to think that 384/384 is worth $25 a month. Try $10.
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