| reply to Davidc9950
Re: Typical cable BS "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. |
