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Re: Curious... said by fAcEtIOUs:said by MASantangelo:Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do if I were a money-grubbing ISP. Ah, the demand that ISPs don't make a reasonable profit. Of course, to some, any company that actually makes money is by definition "money grubbing". When I pay them to ship my bits across the Internet, and they betray my best interests by reselling my data to a third party, that's money-grubbing.
Check out their income statements: » finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=EQ&annualThey are only making 14%, 12.3%, & 10.6% the last 3 years. Just enough to keep investors interested enough in their company to fund capital improvements.
Like it or not, Broadband is a commodity. It's not the place to invest if you want 20%+ growth. It's slower and more assured, like a utility.
Also, Investors don't fund capital improvements. Investors authorize the seeking of new funding or fire boards of directors. But Investors are investors because they have already invested. What they then want to see is return on their investment either in increased stock prices or dividends.
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