said by Balplanman:said by anon anon :Sure and you realize your U-verse pricing was also a promotion and when that ended you would not get that extended.
Fact is in my area 12 Mbps U-verse is $48 a month( non promo ) and 18 Mbps Uverse( if you can get it ) is $53 a month. Sorry Charter's 30 meg for $50 is better than either. Why would I pay $3 MORE per month for 40% LESS speed? And a $2 per month savings isn't worth a 60% reduction in speed either.
OK say you have 100 customers getting $30 promo That's $3000 a month for those 100 customers. Now say promo ends and the price goes back up to $50. Now let's say 30% of those customers leave. Charter still has 70 customers paying $50 a month which is $3500. A 17% INCREASE in income.
And even if 40% left you'd be at the same $3000 but Charter is better off because they have 40% less customers to deal with which means reduced costs. Now it's doubtful 30% will leave let alone 40%.
I agree it would be irrational for you to spend more to get less. But you're talking a couple dollars difference per month - I wouldn't change for that saving either.
I don't understand why you think I should not take advantage of a promo that saves me $39 per month and delivers equivalent service. If this means I must switch back and forth between ATT and Charter yearly to continue to get promo pricing (which Charter used to provide continuously if you asked) then I can (and will) do that.
You can make up straw man examples that "prove" your point but that doesn't work when you use the real numbers that Charter supplied to me. My street is short, just 10 houses, and I've talked to a few of my neighbors who asked how ATT is working out for me. They're interested because Charter's recent rate increase got their attention. So far, two neighbors said they intend to switch to ATT when their Charter contract runs out. This supports your 30% number - but it could increase because when an ATT truck shows up other neighbors will notice (small town USA).
For my street with 10 people, using Charter's promo rate of $117 they would collect 10*117=$1170 month. If all 10 paid the new rate then they would get 10*147=$1470 per mo. If 3 of us drop Charter (as seems likely) then Charter gets: 7*147=$1029 per mo. So, Charter loses $1170-1029=$141 per month on my street over simply extending their promo.
That is, using your 30% expected drop rate and Charter's actual numbers, Charter loses about 12% vs maintaining their promo rate.
If you can save $39 a month for a year, which equals $468, which will pay for the first 9 months, at roughly $50 a month, of you signing back up for Charter after AT&T's promo ends, why WOULDN'T you go for it?
I know if I could get Uverse here and not have to use their phone line, I WOULD be playing the ISP hopping game. I probably would do this right now, if I knew for sure I could get Frontiers advertised speed of 25M download and if they still had dry DSL.
It's no more of a hassle, which is debatable as we all know what calling Charter is like, than calling Charter all the time to play that promo hopping game!