cluth
join:2004-01-06
Anchorage, AK
1 edit | reply to AMDUSER
Re: step in the right direction
Ugh, you folks in the Lower 48 make me mad!  Up here, GCI's a great provider and has good customer service, but we're paying $99.99 per month for 10/384--and that's on TOP of a subscription to "The Ultimate Package" (a telephone/cable TV/broadband lite bundle, as GCI is both our cable provider and our local CLEC). The Ultimate Package is $79.99 per month. Without the Ultimate Package, $99.99 gets you 4/384. And add $7 if you don't have cable TV with GCI.
The competition's almost worse: the ILEC, ACS, offers 320/240 DSL for $49 and 1/320 for $70 (add $5 if you don't have ACS long distance). They offer nothing more than 1mbps unless you're a business.
I subscribe to GCI'S Ultimate Package, some extra long distance minutes (total of 500), a DVR, and the 5/256 cable modem plan (only a $49.99 upgrade to the Ultimate Package), and my GCI bill is $170-ish per month. Yikes. I've been thinking about ways to trim that down, but I don't have a reliable fallback (both my EV-DO and my GSM cell phone service is iffy around my house, despite that it's a well-populated area of the city), and I'm too much of a techno-geek to give anything up.
My point: be grateful for what you have down there at the prices you do! (And if any state regulators are reading this, hint: it'd be nice to figure out how to get a little more competition up here...how about adding another franchise license up here or something...) |
