 atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
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College Station, TX | reply to Bit
Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee? said by Bit:Because the old tier could not handle sustained 20Mb service which is the reason they resort to gimmicks like powerboost. The "old" network was designed for 10Mb service in an era where there wasn't tons of content and even then CV would cap uploads of "excessive" users. Channel bonding will allow them to provide fairly reliable 40-50Mb powerboosted speeds but it simply can't provide capacity in these huge sustained quantities to more than just a couple of users. This tier is all about marketing which is why they have to huge junk fee which insures even less adoption by higher end subscribers. You obviously fail to realize the revenue that the ILECs like AT&T, and Verizon bring in, plus access to the universal service fund (that little line on your bill that adds up to billions upon billions of dollars worth of mismanaged money) vs Cable companies income. Sometimes i think people just post stuff, to stir the pot, with no real basis what so ever. Having different divisions, like a wireless division, and a landline division, and long distance helps the telcos. |
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3 edits | You're right, it does appear some people just post stuff just to post stuff. No other cable operator is charging a $300 activation fee on top of an install fee. Not Comcast, not Cox.
Of course Verizon's overall revenues are higher. They have millions and millions of subscribers. Those larger revenues also have to support an aged and huge infrastructure (their expenses are higher by far). But in the scale that matters, per subscriber revenues, Cablevision is near the top of the industry.
So Verizon spends 3X Cablevision's entire revenue deploying FiOS and still doesn't have to charge for an install. In fact I can't think of any cable operator who charges $335 in activation and install fees. Cox certainly doesn't, they charge $100 for install. Comcast doesn't. Despite the expense of installing an ONT and pulling cable, Verizon doesn't charge for the install either.
Fact is there is simply no justification for such exorbitant junk/install fees other than Cablevision desperately wants to avoid too many people signing up because their network couldn't handle more than a few users local to each other on that tier. At the same time they want to mislead people/media about the price with big print $99 pricing with the real cost buried in the fine print.
Simply put, Cablevision wants to be able to make the claim of "fastest broadband service" while having a scant few actually take them up on the offer because their newly upgrade network isn't up to the task. |
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atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
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College Station, TX | I seriously doubt Cablevision is the top cable company, or near the top of the industry. Think they are surpassed by Comcast, Cox, Charter, and Time Warner. |
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BitPremium
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00000 | »www.chicagotribune.com/business/···23.story
said by AP May 7, 2009 :
The average monthly revenue per subscriber rose 5.4 percent to $136.55, among the highest in the cable TV industry.
So while they may been spending money on their subscribers, they get a ton of money from their subscribers, near the highest in the industry. |
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