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Re: Metered Billing Has Its Place said by Lazlow:Tk Lets say, for the sake of argument, that Espaeth has a point and we move the total HSI revenue cost from $146 million to an even $1 Billion, which should cover ANY imagined costs. You are still making over four times as much as your costs. I do not hold it against any company to make an honest profit, but can you really say that anything over 100% profit is honest? ($4.159 - $1)/$1=316%(profit) I don't see a problem with it, as long as customers keep paying it and WANTING to pay.
The TWC CEO must be a complete idiot, if you are making that much revenue, why piss off your customers?
Make a few network upgrades, add new speeds, make people pay more for the new speeds! Not piss them off, lose customers and business.
When did executives forget how to treat customers? You are supposed to kiss their ass, make them feel good, even if you aren't going to fill their needs... |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Lets flip this around a little bit. Lets compare the video numbers. Cost of Video Revenues $3.75Billion, Video Revenues $10.5 Billion. Now keeping Espaeth point in mind we will add the same $.85 Billion we did for HSI.
3.75+.85= 4.6
(10.5-4.6)/4.6=128%(profit)
So I think disparity in percent profit shows that it is about how much they can convince the user to pay versus what it costs. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Lazlow, can you please provide the link to where you are getting your numbers? Thanks. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | It is from TWC's 10K, usually pages 60 and 89.
»investing.businessweek.com/resea···ype=10-K |
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| And if you look at the overall revenues - costs(excluding a one time charge of $14.8 billion, their profits are not overly high.
Their revenues for TWC were approx $17 billion and the costs were $14 billion. So they made $3 billion on $17 billion in revenue. A 17.6% return.
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| hey TK...would you then mind or be in favor of the gov't taxing the user on a per GB basis? |
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$3 BILLION??? Sounds freaking fantastic to me. |
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| said by jjeffeory:$3 BILLION??? Sounds freaking fantastic to me. The percentage is the relevant number, not the amount. |
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| Would you be in favor of taxation on a per GB basis. That would be the next step in the evolution of billing for broadband services!
You may think it's far fetched, but 2 years ago so was the idea of metered billing.
This is a consumer fight that has broad implications. |
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