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kudos:3 | reply to MPScan
Re: I like 'em... 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. |
