 elray join:2000-12-16 Santa Monica, CA 1 edit | reply to Skippy25
Re: Capital vs. Operating Costs said by Skippy25  Offer more speed for a better price than what is currently available to a vast majority of their market and people will take it. Because they can and the underlying infrastructure is cheaper so they will probably make more per user than they currently do. But that of course would induce the big "C" word (competition) in their markets and they dont want that, nor do their cable sweet hearts.
Instead, they want to play a game of smoke and mirrors. They've offered more speed for a better price, and only a minority of the potential customer base is willing to pay for it.
The underlying infrastructure is NOT cheaper.
The competition will come from LTE, which will make even fewer people willing to buy the fiber product. |