dmconwa
join:2007-04-19
Albuquerque, NM | reply to I love Comcast
Re: Good bye AT&T Yes ,they're access line loss is huge, but they added enough DSL subs to make up for it. All the major telco players have managed to offset their line loss with DSL sales these past two quarters. AT&T still has Cingular which also gobbles up a lot of that line loss as well.
In response to your value proposition of $42.95 Comcast service. You have to realize that this is a really cheap product that is obviously to draw in dial up users who indeed still use a phone line, and have no need for that speed. Just because you play Doom online with your xBOX 360 and need that speed doesn't mean that the average person who uses the internet to check email and surf a bit needs the same connection. I think having a phone line with a lite DSL connection at that price is a great value for someone coming from dial up internet. I think $42.95 for Comcast is a great value for the person who doesn't need a land line, but needs a very high speed internet connection. It's all about the situation, and the majority of the US is more price conscious than megabyte conscious at this point.
I work for Qwest and I always pitch the highest speeds available to each and every customer, but %80 of the time the customer wants the lower tier of DSL because they don't feel like they need anything more than that and don't want to pay for more than that, and they are happy with the service. |
