 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Market is Saturated Only lower prices will increase subscriber growth now that the market for people buying broadband at current prices is saturated.
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cacoPremium
join:2005-03-10
Whittier, AK | Those that can afford it and can get it in their area have jumped on broadband. You still have large areas of this country that their only BB option is Satellite or dial up Add to that the prolonged new housing construction slump and you get the slowdown we are seeing.
IMO first big company that decides to bite the bullet and serve more rural areas will see a good increase in subscriber numbers. How economically feasible will it be to service BFE is another story.
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 screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
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1 edit | Agree, you can only milk these areas for so long before everyone is either sick of their business practice, already have broadband, or doesn't want it. So, the feasible option would be to "broaden" their market by expansion. That's too difficult for them to understand.
Just like all those stupid AT&T Commercials about their horrible broadband service here. The majority of their commercials hit where people don't have broadband so they are pointless.
I don't have it can't get it cause I'm just out of range. My friend has it and only gets 768 down and like 20k up cause of the horrible line quality.
They are trying to upgrade alot of those areas to UVerse but I just don't see it coming here still.
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Ya, put down prices instead of increasing amount of unnecessary services
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 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | reply to caco
It might not be financially viable to serve more rural areas with the current technology. If you have 20,000 potential customers all living within a 5 mile radius, it's much easier to support and setup than it would be to service an area 5 times as large with only 10% of the potential customers. In many cases, it's simply not profitable enough (or at all) to justify, when there are more lucrative avenues to travel down that have not been completed exhausted yet. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | Current tech, maybe not. Wimax/lte may change that. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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said by pnh102:Only lower prices will increase subscriber growth now that the market for people buying broadband at current prices is saturated. There are still a lot of places where build-out needs to occur.
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