iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
 ·Comcast
 ·Qwest.net
 ·magicjack.com
 ·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Still waiting here...
$40 for 1.5/896? How about no...
$47 for 5/896? Not for me either...
I'm in a college town where people would value a decently high speed connection for a reasonable price. The only provider who offers such a connection here is Comcast IMO...aside from upload speed issues, Qwest here is not FTTN and I haven't definitively heard that they'll upgrade this area any time soon. I'd be willing to switch to the $57-a-month 12/896 Titanium plan or at least the 7/896 ADSL2+ mid-tier offering if Qwest offered it here, but they don't, so I use Comcast.
What's funny is that the $175 per customer upgrade cost could be recouped in about 18 months by that customer choosing the 12 Mbps tier over a lower one, or the 7 Mbps ADSL2+ tier over 1.5 over the course of 24 months or so. Or look at it this way: that $175 upgrade could actually bring more Qwest customers on board with a more expensive ADSL2+ plan, so at $57 per month you're looking at a dang quick ROI.
Why they're only aiming for 40% FTTN penetration I just don't know...in non-FTTN areas the price for DSL is high enough compared to cable that using the MSO instead of the telco gives extra speed at a minimal price increase. Not good for customer retention... |
