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| | Such Value People who want to keep criticizing Google Fiber saying that no one wants a Gbps connection, and no one wants to pay $70 for internet, remember that 95% of people are not cord-cutting, and want TV.
$120 for every channel in the book and a ridiculously fast internet connection should terrify TWC. They wouldn't even offer you that at a promotional price now.
Yes, people vote with their wallets. And Google has given them every incentive to make the switch. And for the people who won't desire straight internet, TV is the great incentive.
No contracts, no expensive installation charges, the constant shuffling between promotional and contract pricing, the endless games and hoops to jump through, Google is avoiding all that. You don't think people will find that appealing? I sure as hell do.
As long as they develop a customer service presence, TWC should be absolutely terrified. And of the major cable operators, they're probably the best one overall in terms of TV offerings and uncapped broadband at the moment. Unless you're just dying for 100Mbps+ broadband (and it's capped), Comcast is largely inferior to TWC, IMO. | |
|   LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Re: Such Value said by osravens:As long as they develop a customer service presence, TWC should be absolutely terrified.
That is the key question, isn't it? Google has to be close to worst in the US of large companies in customer service. If, and that is a real big if, they actually deploy live human beings for cust service, instead of just their pathetic email/forum support, they will be a real threat. We will have to wait and see.
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| |  XiodenPremium
join:2008-06-10
Monticello, NY
kudos:1 | Re: Such Value The few times I've had to contact Google for help with various things I've gotten responses back within an hour or two. | |
| | | | said by Linklist: Google has to be close to worst in the US of large companies in customer service.
Absolutely false. Time Warner is the bottom of the barrel. | |
| | |  LightSPremium
join:2005-12-17
Greenville, TX | Re: Such Value Charter?  | |
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| dra6o0n
join:2011-08-15
Mississauga, ON | They'll hire some other company to do the customer service for them.
There. | |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | I liked my 50/15 when I was in a Comcast area. TWC doesn't have that. They don't have caps either, but Comcast never complained when I went over theirs. Nor have I gone over what Comcast's caps would be since I've moved to a TWC area. | |
| | | | Re: Such Value I know TWC was testing upstream channel bonding to get to 50/25 in NY and NC, I don't know if that's officially launched yet. | |
| | | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Such Value It hasn't.
I think all of Austin's plant is still 4x1 DS/US, so they couldn't do more than about 100/10 even if they wanted to. | |
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join:2012-05-19
Carbondale, IL Reviews:
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| said by osravens:No contracts, no expensive installation charges, the constant shuffling between promotional and contract pricing, the endless games and hoops to jump through, Google is avoiding all that. You don't think people will find that appealing? I sure as hell do.
Google locks you into a contract, and if you don't want it, you have to pay install charges. So you're wrong on both points. | |
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