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3 edits | Or at 5GB about 1/2 of an HD movie.
If all people did was browse and use email, they would stick to dial up for less than 1/6th the price.
This is just TWC abusing their market position to stop video competitors like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix from taking their VOD PPV revenue.
How about instead of letting their marketing department set their speeds, they actually sell speeds their network can support?
But it's certainly not surprising for cable who has made their business on raising prices while cutting services. It's certainly no wonder that a company like Comcast has lower satisfaction ratings than the Internal Revenue Service. |
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kfsutops
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| said by Dogfather  :If all people did was browse and use email, they would stick to dial up for less than 1/6th the price. This is just TWC abusing their market position to stop video competitors like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix from taking their VOD PPV revenue. How about instead of letting their marketing department set their speeds, they actually sell speeds their network can support? But it's certainly not surprising for cable who has made their business on raising prices while cutting services. It's certainly no wonder that a company like Comcast has lower satisfaction ratings than the Internal Revenue Service. It is not really a test when it's the only product they are offering. If the store only sales cheesecake..and no body else is around to sell food..then you buy cheesecake.
And until this switch goes to existing customers we will not know the true impact of the type of billing is. But it may not matter because of the collusion that goes on between the cable companies on their pricing.
They are more like the airline industry..they really don't try to compete. They wait to see what other companies do and charge. Then they do they same thing. The cell phone market does the same thing. That is why everybody pays ridiculous prices for text messaging.
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | Huh? The airlines are bankrupting themselves trying to compete with each other. Watching what the others do and responding is exactly what competition is. |
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kfsutops
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| said by Dogfather :Huh? The airlines are bankrupting themselves trying to compete with each other. Watching what the others do and responding is exactly what competition is. It's not really competition when one company (airline as an example)charges $25 for the first bag and then all they other companies say "me too" and start charging the same fees. This is what is having in the broadband market because most markets have no competition.
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MrMaster
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not all airlines are going belly up.
love them or hate them Southwest is doing just fine. |
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kfsutops
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| said by MrMaster :not all airlines are going belly up. love them or hate them Southwest is doing just fine. Because they do there own thing..Instead of the "me too" companies.
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Dogfather
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Of course it's competition. Those airlines are trying to get the same customers.
It's different than some broadband markets where there is only 1 choice. That would be like there being only 1 airline. |
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unoriginal
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San Diego, CA | reply to kfsutops
They also have hedges for their fuel that they bought and put in place several years ago which makes the people in charge at Southwest look like geniuses right now. |
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dvd536
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said by kfsutops :said by Dogfather :Huh? The airlines are bankrupting themselves trying to compete with each other. Watching what the others do and responding is exactly what competition is. It's not really competition when one company (airline as an example)charges $25 for the first bag and then all they other companies say "me too" and start charging the same fees. This is what is having in the broadband market because most markets have no competition. American is charging for your carry-on now.
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