We Talk To Verizon About Forced DSL to FiOS Upgrades > In Verizon's best interest to get customers migrated..

In Verizon's best interest to get customers migrated..

do you really NEED another choice with FiOS verizon can cut my copper POTS line any day
id sell a kidney for 20/20 FiOS

You can have one of my kidneys.

But I'm keepin' my FiOS.

reply to elios
When you are talking about people only spending $15-$20/month at 768, yeah they do need another choice. No FIOS plans that cheap, are there?

i dont see why Verizon cant just keep them on that speed plan on the fiber then

That would be fine, but then they'd have to offer it up to everyone else as well. I don't think they want to offer up any FIOS plan for $15, no matter the speed. They need to make money back for the huge investment they are making, and offering low cost packages won't do it for them. Maybe once they start showing a profit on FIOS you might see budget plans, but not until at least then.

true but i wouldnt want less then 1.5Mbps any way and dont know why any one would you cant really do any thing with it
i guess if all you do is check your e-mail then its fine but you can do with 56k
but yes maybe verizon should offer a 20-25 buck 1.5/128 plan
even a 30 buck 1.5/1.5 would be fine for most

They're cheapest plan is $40 for 10/2. That's the price point they need to be at right now to get a return on deployment. Most people don't need that much speed, so if the offer a lower package, most would go with that. So the end up not making back the money they need. Right now it's cheaper for them to give more speed than offer lower, cheaper packages.

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reply to Jodokast96
If they offered the DSL customers a chance to move to FiOS for the same price, package and everything else- they would not have to offer it to everyone else; especially if the customer has a "for-life" deal. The deal would only be for those customers and it would say that. They would simply have a sign-up code or flag your account or something to know who you are verse another customer wanting the plan; it simply would not show up in whats available at the other address.

reply to elios

did you miss the part of about selling kidneys that wasnt a joke id pay nearly any thing for FiOS and there are WAYS to get around the phone bill i dont need half the bundled crap
just local service and im fine

reply to hottboiinnc
That would be a billing nightmare. They have enough billing problems with FIOS as it is. And it would only be a matter of time before it got out and then everyone else would be pissed off. Sorry, FIOS is not a budget service, and there is no reason for them to offer it as such. They have sunk BILLIONS into it. Why would they offer DSL users a cheap rate? Where do you think most of the FIOS users will be coming from? So they deploy this great new upgraded system and bill all of their current customers the same? Where's the ROI? They NEED to charge more than they currently do for DSL to pay for it, plain and simple, or they won't survive. If they do away with DSL, those people have two options. Go to FIOS and pay more a month or go to cable and pay more a month. Guess which still comes in the cheapest? Not cable.

reply to Jodokast96
I'm sure that they would use a plan like that for retention, then they wouldn't have to offer it to everyone. $15 would be a better return on the investment than 0.

No, it wouldn't. Even if you lost half of your customers and the other half switch to a service that's almost 3x the price, you're already making more money than with all of them at $15. Given the cost of any other alternative would be even more than the cheapest FIOS offering, you would probably be able to keep more than half of them, so now they are really getting a return on their investment. A quick run of the numbers shows that you would only need to switch 37.5% from $15/month to $40/month to break even. And once it became public that they were offering a $15 FIOS plan, more people would demand it and get it. Sorry, the numbers just don't play out into their favor that way. Look how long it took for low cost DSL plans. Almost at the end of it's life when it was starting to be replaced. It won't happen for any reason.