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| Typical cable BS This is nothing more than typical cable company BS. Every single one of you that have posted here has been crying; read "whining", about your bill, service, etc. While I disagbree that these things are "expensive to offer", they are not since once the initial capital outlay has been spent and the equipment is in place the price to offer this service is stagnant moving forward, it is quite expensive for the initial capital outlay of purchasing equipment, running cable, servers, mail servers, Operating systems for servers, etc. Let us not forget that irregardless of what OS they run, ie: Red Hat, suSe, Microsoft, these companies get the costs of the OS up front, before the cable co can start billing and offering internet services to anyone. While I agree that Adelphi is a ripoff from a management side of it, most cable companies are, $40.00/month is too much money for 3mbps up / 256 kbps down. There is another story on this page regarding fiber to the house at 10mbps up and down. Now, that would be something that I would pay $50.00 / month for.
This is just my $0.02 worth. Also, this is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
David | | |
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 hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
kudos:4 | david posted
"This is just my $0.02 worth. Also, this is just my opinion, I could be wrong"
Thank You. The last 4 words summed your post up very well.
Hob
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
gpancner
join:2001-09-27
Nine Mile Falls, WA | Care for some cheese with your whine?
Two cents appears to be the amount of money invested in educational time to develop that thought process. Obviously not much of an understanding of economics.
And by the way, "irregardless" is not a word. Probably paid less than a penny for that. | |
| reply to Davidc9950
"it is quite expensive for the initial capital outlay of purchasing equipment, running cable, servers, mail servers, Operating systems for servers, etc. Let us not forget that irregardless of what OS they run, ie: Red Hat, suSe, Microsoft, these companies get the costs of the OS up front, before the cable co can start billing and offering internet services to anyone."
Let us not forget the costs of labor. Labor is QUITE the expensive cost of most operations and a direct dregg on profits. For ever install it costs an MSO roughly 90$. For every 'self-install' where someone calls into support ( sometimes on multiple instances ) the costs can exceed even the truck roll.
If an introductory price incentive is offered of 19.99$ or even 29.99$, how long will it take for that one connection to become profitable?
"There is another story on this page regarding fiber to the house at 10mbps up and down. Now, that would be something that I would pay $50.00 / month for."
When funds are bonded or extracted from taxpayers, there will always be 'hidden' costs. It might be 50$ fot that FTTH connection per month, but what about local taxes and operations costs? Who collects that bill?
Sincerely,
jAX. | |
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