Comcablrtl
join:2003-10-25
Midwest
 ·Comcast
| reply to Matt
Re: Shocked?
...and the cable companies were the ones that warned that this would happen. Why would the telcos want to offer a lower price than cable? They need to make money too. The only reason they started offering cable was to have some way to compete against cable companies that offer phone service. If you think about it, just about all customers signing up for cable phone service are coming from telcos. For them to sit back and watch their phone customers disappear to cable is definitely not a winning strategy. They had to launch cable to have a competing product. They can offer slightly lower prices, or even the same prices as cable, and be able to now retain those customers that were jumping ship to get a double or triple play from a competing cable company/ |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| Telco's never had to offer Cable. If they'd offer a lower cost product they'd have business. But nope! they only offer you a special when you threaten to leave to go to Cable, or you go to sign up with Comcast and VZ puts a hold on your number transfer request and then they decide to call you and offer you some promotion that they would NOT have offered to you in the first place. Because they're VZ and don't have to do that.
Remember the telco's are the ones that have the "other fees and taxes" so when they have to lower your price due to them losing business to VoIP and Digital phone customers they have some sort of profit coming in. |
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