| The skinny Still, the price remains less than Verizon charges for 50Mbps FiOS in many markets. The *only* relevant market, is the one in which Cablevision AND Verizon FiOS directly compete.
IN THAT MARKET, FiOS is quite competitive, and under bundle terms with or without yearly commitments, is cheaper.
Regardless, through the first year of service, with Ultra's $300 activation fee, FiOS is cheaper than Ultra under any conditions.
I suspect the $300 "Activation fee" is a deliberate ploy by Cablevision to discourage adoption of this tier because the network is in reality, incapable (as is) of supporting any real-world number of power users.
You can see the numbers of posters in the OOL forum who are NOW NOT going to be jumping on this tier as a direct result of this. In appearance, Cablevision is making the tier cost-prohibitive by having such an outlandish "Activation fee", which would make the tier solely a marketing gimmick to "claim" the top-prize in the speed wars in the New York region. It also lends much more credence to the Verizon rep who originally opined that the tier '..is nothing more than a "parlor trick" '. |
