BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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Re: Old vs New small print
said by iansltx  :So basically cell phone companies don't want to get into the fixed residential broadband market. Yes give on on 20 million potential customers. I'd fire the CEO that has that kind of thinking. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Not when it's more profitable to have them on landline, and don't forget that half the major wireless companies are also telephone companies, and Sprint is now dependent on cable companies to fund Clearwire. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by EPS :Not when it's more profitable to have them on landline, and don't forget that half the major wireless companies are also telephone companies, and Sprint is now dependent on cable companies to fund Clearwire. Well let's see at&t is the phone company here. So who would Verizon offering wireless internet at reasonable rates and higher caps and lower overage fees be cannibalizing thier business? It seems it would be ADDING to it since Verizon doesn't have a landline footprint anywhere near here. |
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tiger72
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Premium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
 ·T-Mobile US
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| said by BF69 :said by EPS :Not when it's more profitable to have them on landline, and don't forget that half the major wireless companies are also telephone companies, and Sprint is now dependent on cable companies to fund Clearwire. Well let's see at&t is the phone company here. So who would Verizon offering wireless internet at reasonable rates and higher caps and lower overage fees be cannibalizing thier business? It seems it would be ADDING to it since Verizon doesn't have a landline footprint anywhere near here. maybe not near you, but Verizon has a massive landline footprint - second only to ATT... They're not going to have varying packages for various regions. They're a national carrier so they have national rate plans. And since they don't want to undercut themselves in the regions they serve, they're offering the same thing everywhere.
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