 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
1 edit | reply to jester121
Re: That's how they lost their huge adds Because you have hundreds of customers paying to support a single truck roll. Your math requires everyone to have a truck roll and ignores the fixed costs of providing DSL. There are many costs that are the same whether they're providing service to 1 customer or 1000.
It's the same as insurance. It's pooled premiums that allow an insurer to pay off a claim. A single claim taken against a single insured will look like a losing proposition every time. But for every insured that takes a claim, there are hundreds or thousands that don't.
There is no skewing the annual report. Data services were and are profitable and those margins increased when they had these cheap DSL deals. Without them we see clearly that they get no new customers. |
