 MPScanPremium
join:2001-08-24
Boston, MA
1 edit | I like 'em... I have RCN in Boston. No phone, but rock solid 10m/768k internet that never goes down. All the cable channels except premium channels on two HD cable boxes in my house.
$93.33 per month. That includes all taxes, fees, everything. Never goes up or down a penny, and it's not a "hook you for 6 or 12 months promo", that's the real price. I think it went up from around $89 two years ago.
That's about 1/3 less than I would pay with Comcrap, at least.
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| said by MPScan:I have RCN in Boston. No phone, but rock solid 10m/768k internet that never goes down. All the cable channels except premium channels on two HD cable boxes in my house. $93.33 per month. That includes all taxes, fees, everything. Never goes up or down a penny, and it's not a "hook you for 6 or 12 months promo", that's the real price. I think it went up from around $89 two years ago. That's about 1/3 less than I would pay with Comcrap, at least. When I still had dial up, I started with a company called Erol's. They started off as a TV repair shop and then sold TV and VCRs (way back in the 70s and 80s.) They then started a video rental business that was BIG in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore area. So successful that Blockbuster bought them up. After some downtime, the same guy started an ISP that was dial up and had great prices ($7.99/month 2 year contract.) What I really liked about them was they always had an up to date service and outage page that was very useful.
RCN/Starpower bought them out and the service turned to crap and prices went up. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to MPScan
I hate to be the one to say this... but if you were paying 1/3 less than 'comcrap' ... which is a good price to the customer.. and RCN is in bankruptcy, it kinda does say something abut RCN doesn't it?
There is another story posted today about 100meg to 100 million but it's not going to fix anything until the duopoly is "fixed".... RCN is pretty much something to prove why you can't have that many carriers in one place.. the market won't handle it.. It's too expensive to run a system when you only have so many customers to grab.
I think RCN tried to keep their prices low in order to gain customers. This also brings up a point as well.. someone here tried to fight me that "price is king".. if that was the case, over builders like RCN would kill the other provider of cable or phone - but it doesn't always.
RCN probably didn't charge enough for their service. They could have gone up in price to remain sustainable WHILE keeping up the competition with providing GOOD customer service, etc. (There is more than one way to be competitive other than price)
I guess what I'm saying is that RCN's lower prices do play into why they were in bankruptcy before.. and the fact they needed to just sell out is also a good sign of a bad business model in an economy that won't support it.
The reason why phone competes with cable and cable competes with phone is because those two companies already had room on established networks. Try to add another network and you will see a bit of an upset, but that only lasts for so long before one fails. |
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