6Mbps DSL for $45 > Great Deal -- Beats $100 for same thing from SBC

reply to reelbigfish

Re: Great Deal -- Beats $100 for same thing from SBC

I would say that SBC might me able to sell at or lower than these offers that DSLExtreme and Sonic.net, most likely between the two, but SBC won't give you static IP's, which falls in line with thier pricing. So for a residential, dynamic IP account, you might be able to get 6Mbps/608kbps for $50-$55, which is not a bad deal considering it is faster than most cable companies offer.

Yep, I'm guessing $55-60 for their expert+ also. And I bet the expert plus static will be $120 or more. UGH. And if my 1.5/256/static remains $80/mo while people are getting 4x the bandwidth for $60/mo, that will irritate me enough to make me leave SBC. Charging for static service is one thing, but gouging the customer is another. I'm already reluctantly paying $80/mo for 1.5/256 with static IPs, but that would be a slap in the face

I'm betting there will be a static discount too. I'm not a reseller but I can make assumptions based on the pricing that the resellers have been offering. SBC appears to give resellers different pricing for static and dynamic connections and thus far all of the deep discounts have only been for dynamic IP (although you can in general get a static IP from a reseller much cheaper than SBCIS).

But in the case of DSLExtreme's 6000/608 plan, the static and dynamic pricing is the same. Since they're reselling static IP cheaper, they may have a plan in mind for their own ISP also.

If we have to hedge bets, I'm gonna guess $45 from SBC, to compete with Cable's 45.95.

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