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reply to GilbertMark
The ISP need to create a better business model (if neccessary) and charge more for bandwidth from there customers. It is there customers that want to access Google. Google pays an ISP as well but in this case google is the ISP for itself. So I say "get over your 12.95 DSL lines and create a profitable business model without taxing other companies".

$12.99 IS profitable for DSL. Once the electronics are in place, it costs them squat to provide your service. Especially when they are double dipping for dial tone service on the same wire pair.

reply to Jodokast96

reply to Fatal Vector
Just because a line will support dial tone does not mean that it will necessarily support DSL.

wow Ray,
That is from left field.
I guess I could respond in sequitur, and say:
Just because you have copper doesnt mean you can get dialtone on it.

I have meters and meters of Romex copper in my house and there is no dialtone or DSL on it!

reply to Fatal Vector

reply to Jodokast96

said by Jodokast96:

said by Maxo:

The apples at the grocery store are practically free after the cost of the store purchasing the apples and paying someone to stock them. If they'd just let you take them they could remove that pesky cost of having cashiers.

Any idea of what how much, as a percentage, Verizon or any other DSL provider with sub-$20 service took in last year? I'm willing to bet it was more than the 1-2% the average supermarket made. And relying solely on future earnings to fund what you are doing now doesn't really seem to smart. What happened to previous years profits?

I was talking about how much total profit there was at the end of the year, after every single bill and salary (including the owners) has been paid. In the supermarket industry, it is about a 1-2% profit. That being said, 8 stores in my area alone accounted for almost half a billion dollars in sales, but at the end of it all, there was between 5 and 10 mil. left over. Verizon, just as an example, might not have spent as much, or maybe more, I don't know, but I can almost guarantee they made back a lot more money than the 1-2% the supermarkets did.

reply to Maxo
"Entirely untrue. The cost of the equipment itself is roughly a half million dollars. That's not easy to make up at less than $50/month. Then they have to run T1 or OC circuits to the CO to connect it to the ISP CO which also needs OC circuits. Then there are the technicians that work 40+ hours/week to keep the system running. Factor in each time you call tech support probably costs something like $5-$10 per call at thousands of calls a day."

Well now...The cost of the equipment is a cost of doing business, as is running circuits (doubtlessly done with their internal fiber network, since that is the only thing they have been laying here and the rest of the main copper is underground).

The technicians would be working anyway, as would "tech support". I doubt it costs $5-10 per call either, since the lines used are allready paid for and the representatives get paid a certain hourly wage, regardless of how many calls they handle per hour. These are ALL fixed costs of doing business that would exist regardless.

So, basically, once the electronics are in place, it costs them nothing to provide service.

reply to Fatal Vector

I work in a support center, but I don't take calls. Can I go home too?