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Chandler, AZ | reply to Rick
Re: Communities need to be careful said by Rick:If anything..there's probably more incentive and need for verizon to RAISE prices than anything else. Meanwhile..they're still out there taking customers away from Comcast or other cable co's reducing their profitability as well. again, maybe if the cable co's produced a better product or offered to compete with verizon on a price level, they might actual win subs.
fios is cool because its fiber optic. its a buzz-word that catches people's attention. however, they offer no low level internet service. maybe is comcast would be *routinely* under fios' prices for services (without the damn bundle or the "intro" rate crap) people wouldn't switch. the mso's have to define themselves. they have said that they were "n times faster than dsl", which was the telcos only answer for hsi. now that we have some fios in the mix, cable will need to redefine themselves or fail in every market that fios serves.
said by Rick:What incentive does that give a company like Comcast except to ALSO raise prices higher than they otherwise might if they weren't giving up a fair amount of business to another company. the more appropriate question is why hasn't this given cable co's the incentive to actual *compete* rather than just follow suit? am i missing something or is this proving that what is considered "competition" doesn't really exist and we have an oligopoly for our tv/hsi/phone needs and we are forced to bown down to the major players or not have services at all?
again, if comcast could compete with fios on a level other than sleazy marketing, you wouldn't be worried now, would you Rick  ?
said by Rick:but the TIME it's going to take and what is happening to their core businesses in the meantime everything comes to he who waits. if it truly is a flawed business model, then you won't have to worry now will you Rick ? fios will fail and you will get your subs back.
said by Rick:It will be a johnny come lately product..a what took you so long kind of a rollout. Fios will have lost it's luster. if i recall correctly, fios is offering much faster speeds than almost *every* market comcast has a footing in. doesn't this make docsis 3.0 the late-comer? who is going to switch back to cable when they already have a much faster, much more reliable transport medium for their data? epic fail, Rick .
said by Rick:hey have a very good corporate citizen in comcast who has done a lot for that community except for continually raising prices (without verizon competition, i might add [»It's Cable TV Rate Hike Season, »Comcast: Hey, At Least We're Not Hiking Broadband/VoIP Prices), continually ranking at or near the bottom in customer service ([»JD Power: TelcoTV Beating Cable In Satisfaction, »Cable Continues Low Customer Satisfaction Tradition), messing up the homes of those who try to use your service ([»Cable Install Comes With Free Sewage), throttling the user experience (without disclosure) and adding anti-competitive usage caps to your service ([»Comcast’s Throttling Plans Outlined, »Examining Comcast's New Bandwidth Management System, »Sandvine Fuels New Comcast System), you are right...comcast is an upstanding company.
besides, why are you even worried about verizon Rick ? i thought att was your biggest threat (»Comcast: AT&T Is Our Biggest Threat )?
oh yeah...i forgot how well these two correlate...
said by Rick:I'm very hard pressed to see any reason at all that a verizon request should be expedited. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed in. But there's simply no consumer benefit to hurry things up IMO. wouldn't have anything to do with this (»Economy Worries Slowing DOCSIS 3.0 Rollouts), would it?
please Rick , my sides hurt from laughing. there is such a thing as too much humor in a night.
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