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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| Re: What? I agree, what decreases in prices?
Comcast hasn't budged for me in 3-4 years, except when they started charging me the "non-bundling" fee. Used to be $45/mo, then they said "get CATV or your price will go up anyway", price went to $60/mo and there it has stayed.
The telcos have rolled out "incentive" pricing, like 29.95 for first 3 months, then up to 39.95 or whatever. When you look at these rates over 2-3years there is very little saving over paying full rate for the whole time. And, the only reason the telcos are giving these temporary discounts is because they're getting scared of falling behind the cablecos. Just not scared enough to permanently lower prices. | |
|  Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
1 edit | Re: What? said by nasadude  :The telcos have rolled out "incentive" pricing, like 29.95 for first 3 months, then up to 39.95 or whatever. When you look at these rates over 2-3years there is very little saving over paying full rate for the whole time. And, the only reason the telcos are giving these temporary discounts is because they're getting scared of falling behind the cablecos. Just not scared enough to permanently lower prices. If you look at the first post of mine with the three telco examples, they are not promotional rates but regular pricing. BellSouth has come down over 50% in price since introduced (from $69.99 to $32.95) and I'd estimate SBC somewhere in the same neighborhood percentage wise. FIOS hasn't been out long enough to see substantial price decreases but they have had some decreases on their 30mb/5mb product. I'd say this is a very large price decrease on the telco side of broadband as a whole. | |
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