| reply to Rick
Re: That sure is a purty pie chart Why would they price their service at $20 to $25 a month? The quality can't be touched by the other services (Vonage, ATT, whatever) and people are signing up.
If they are adding subs, hitting their market goals, and doing so with a service that's $40. . . keep on truckin.
The service isn't ideal for a lot of POTS type customers, or savvy ViOP customers, but the service and the subs they ARE adding will be good for my Comcast stock!
This is a business, remember. If I offered a product at a high price and people were buying it, why would I offer a cheaper product with a lower profit margin to pick up bottom of the barrel subscribers.
I don't think that Comcast wants all those basic only POTS people. They don't spend money, they don't call long distance, they don't sign up for digital TV service, they aren't the market share that is going to make you money.
It's all the people that pay Qwest/Verizon/etc $40-$50-$60-$70 a month for phone service that they want. For those people, it's a helluva deal. They don't have to fiddle with it, they get a guy to come install it, it has E911, and they can call Comcast and bitch people out who speak English if it doesn't. LOL |
