Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| beat the rate hike Verizon must find a way to beat the yearly rate-hike game by creating their own movie channels and exclusive content (channels, not just the on-demand stuff). If you look at where the rate increases are, it is in the BASIC channel line-up.. the premium channels have found a way to hook subscribers by offering more channels for higher bundle rates (upwards of $40-60 per month) Which, packaged together with basic networks adds up to around $80-120+ a month just to watch TV..
Let's not forget the vision of a "$100" triple play package was a 1996 telcom reform act pipe-dream, while adjustments to inflation and foreign policy responses to national disasters such as 9/11 and oil company greed have caused all "prices" to rise into 'late 1970's style inflation. However, don't consider me an apologist for the cable networks who have greed on the mind.
Sooner or later, these networks will have to compete with ubiquity of "freely available" content, copyrighted or not from the internet.
FYI, the company most capable of leveraging that 'competitiveness' is Verizon.
And.. I leave you with this sprinkle of a factoid:
new years bring seasonal rate increases:
property taxes/school taxes
state fees (use your imagination, they're going UP)
mortgage rate adjustments
insurance premiums
cost of compliance laws (implemented 1/01/XX)
cost of a measly postage stamp
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BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 | I don't know -- that $100 "pipe dream" seems pretty successful to me! Paying $41 for broadband + $40 for satellite TV + $8 for unlimited phone. (Should be much less if I ever switch to FiOS.) No stupid year-limited cable bait and switch promos involved.
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Reviews:
·Optimum Online
·Verizon FiOS
| Sounds similar to IDT Verizon dsl broadband with dishnetwork, for $79+taxes/fees,no? If not, who are the providers & are your rates 'grandfathered'?
If it were a "cable company" it would be higher with a limited time offer thing, IMO. For those who are not bandwidth fiends... god bless, for the rest of us, we like to get close to the bleeding edge of fast as we can reasonably afford, which makes $100 triple play hard to accomodate. |
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BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 | Nope, just Earthlink over Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, and Sunrocket VoIP. No grandfathering required. And no freakin' BUNDLE required!
Part of my point was that the $100 price point is easily reached for many people, though NOT necessarily as a bundled triple-play deal.
My rates would go down by $10 or so if I go FiOS (or, alternatively, my speeds could go way up depending on the chosen FiOS tier -- that would certainly be near-bleeding edge speed and still well under $100 total).
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