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Re: Well not shocking
said by BF69  :when ISPs don't want to expand out into areas that currently don't have broadband because they deem them not profitable enough. Last time I checked profit is profit. If I make $1 from a million people I still make $1 mil. This is 100% the problem -- why spend $100-1000 per subscriber to add a new service area when you can spend $50-200 per subscriber to entice them away from the other neighborhood duopolist?
Karl, I still don't think metered billing will catch on. Any ISP who thinks that consumers will prefer their faster metered service over a slower unmetered one is dead wrong.
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Sadly, I prefer the faster metered one.
Embarq only offers 5mbps here.
I have to pay $10 more for "dry" DSL or get a POTS line
ADSL2 only offers 896k upload. Cable currently offers me 2M upload. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | Wait till they start charging crazy metering fees and then it costs you over 2x what the embarq will. in this mess metering may have a boot start, but when other come along with no meter for quite a bit less the no meters will win. |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
1 edit | The cap is 100Gig and they charge $1/Gig over.
It's 60 gig if you have a 10m connection (I have 30).
The point is that I have to choose between the lesser of two evils, not the service I want, which would be something like 50/20 FiOS. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | I agree if you cannot get what u want, get the closest thing. |
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