Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| strange, amidst competition Well, price increases maybe in the works.. but they are cycling through promotional materials of which they are offering triple play for $69.99 a month for 1 year (plus taxes and fees)-- in the NY, Long Island area.. home turf of Cablevision.
I can't imagine prices going higher if none of the cable companies follow suit.. (though, leave it up to comcast & time warner to announce triple play and single service price increases next above and beyond what they've already announced) obviously this was going to happen as soon as AT&T pushed out their rate hikes... I'm not surprised the top package isn't even 50/50 megabits yet and the entry level tier is asymmetric. No firm price was also listed for stand-alone internet. If they meant +$15 above a dual play package, they are nuts. That would force a lynchmob of backlash, and probably result in the state puc's getting involved in this money grab. There is also no distinction between freedom value "voice" and FIOS digital voice.. you still get the same crappy 3 features on either, unless they are cooking up a more feature rich (ie, every feature you can possibly want for voice) for FIOS digital voice-- something that is kind of too little too late. Most people can buy unlimited cell phone coverage for $30-50 a month inclusive of taxes & fees, so why have a landline? You could get virtually free voip land-line from google. That leaves you with a choice of internet. I think cable tv rates are getting too hot to handle (from ANY service provider) for the average consumer.
Bundling services is a dying breed.. and now the two wire duopoly is poised to gouge internet access with collusive pricing! Good luck with that idea! |
