Dezbend
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-20
| more 10 Meg rumors
Finally, after months and months of asking my sources, I got some actual numbers (I will not vouch for the accuracy yet - I am treating this as rumor still)
9/17 10Meg/896k offered in Las Vegas at $64.95 (-$10.00 with qualifying bundle)
Jan 2008 10 Meg offered in all areas same pricing
I do not know if this is a phased roll out with 10Meg service being introduced town by town or if Las Vegas is doing a trial a few months early.
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23 | $65? Ouch; I was hoping they'd make 10/1 $55, 5/768 $45, 3 meg $35, 1.5 meg $25 and 768k $15....doesn't look like that's going to happen.
Anyway, only time will tell. |
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DarnellP
join:2004-10-12
Las Vegas, NV | reply to Dezbend
Incredible. They are almost a year behind Cox cable here in offering 10 Meg and they don't even give a 1 meg upload to match Cox? Brilliant! |
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Gemologist
Premium
join:2001-11-15
USA
clubs: 
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Hmmm.. guess they will need to do some serious upgrading in the next year considering they can not even support and provide 5M/640K around here!!! Since they can't manage even stable 3M here how will they provide 10M???
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jsmith99
@embarqhsd.net | reply to Dezbend
So $10 more a month for double the speed? Nice. |
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bctrainers
join:2004-08-03
Olathe, KS
| said by jsmith99 :
So $10 more a month for double the speed? Nice.
That's not all that bad to be honest, just have to hope that the tubes of embarq to sprintlink will not become saturated from the new tier speeds... Seeing the past year of upgrades via SprintLink in my area has led me to think there is a change coming.  |
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TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ | reply to Fox McCloud
Ditto on the ouch. That will hardly be competitive with Comcast in these parts. |
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bctrainers
join:2004-08-03
Olathe, KS
| said by TScheisskopf  :Ditto on the ouch. That will hardly be competitive with Comcast in these parts. Would be nice if they went ahead and put in vDSL or whatever that new technology is named... I'd get that faster than anything else!  |
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
 ·Embarq
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by bctrainers :said by TScheisskopf :Ditto on the ouch. That will hardly be competitive with Comcast in these parts. Would be nice if they went ahead and put in vDSL or whatever that new technology is named... I'd get that faster than anything else! I'll second that; I live under 5000 feet from a fiber fed RT, so the speeds I could get would be amazing....sadly, I think DSL Tech said that Embarq has no current plans to deploy VDSL at RT's; only the central office (of course, he said you probably wouldn't expect to see higher speeds from it either; they'd use most of the bandwidth for IPTV).
Either way, we can use port bonding with ADSL2+, so we could theoretically have speeds asymmetrical speeds that are on par with Verizon's FiOS. |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
| reply to Fox McCloud
Re: more 10 Meg rumors
said by Fox McCloud :$65? Ouch; I was hoping they'd make 10/1 $55, 5/768 $45, 3 meg $35, 1.5 meg $25 and 768k $15....doesn't look like that's going to happen. I *think* it depends on your area and the competition. Where I am, Embarq pegs prices close to Comcast offerings (their main competitor): I pay $45 for the 3000 tier, and that's around $10 less than Comcast charges for naked HSI service, which I believe is 6000.
However, I know people that pay $35 for the 3000 tier in another area where there are more competitors. I don't know whether Comcast is one of them.
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feek
join:2002-01-23
Philadelphia, PA
2 edits | reply to Dezbend
Re: more 10 Meg rumors
I wish they'd factor in the cost of their essentially useless landline. That's another 15 dollars. So, for me right now, it's 15+54+10~fees = 80 dollars!
I just started service(so I don't have an actual bill yet), but I've had comcast in the past and it was only 64 dollars, and you got some basic cable channels, AND it's significantly faster. I think it's 8/1 right now plus that weird burst technology.
the only reason i have embarq is because a whole bunch of comcast channels come into my house for free. It really doesn't make sense to use Embarq, atleast not in my market. If they offered the 10/868 service for the same 54 dollar price, THEN it would be worth a look at.
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
1 edit | said by feek :I wish they'd factor in the cost of their essentially useless landline. That's another 15 dollars. So, for me right now, it's 15+54+10~fees = 80 dollars! I just started service(so I don't have an actual bill yet), but I've had comcast in the past and it was only 64 dollars, and you got some basic cable channels, AND it's significantly faster. I think it's 8/1 right now plus that weird burst technology. the only reason i have embarq is because a whole bunch of comcast channels come into my house for free. It really doesn't make sense to use Embarq, atleast not in my market. If they offered the 10/868 service for the same 54 dollar price, THEN it would be worth a look at. how are you getting channels for free? When you got cable Internet, did they forget to put the filter in?
If Embarq launched a "go naked" campaign for their DSL, I'd be much pleased; more and more companies are starting to go this route; why not one of the highest rated DSL company around? |
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Dezbend
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-20
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One guy I talked to said they would be reevaluating the overall price structure when it is rolled out nationally. I don't know what that means, so I wont make any guesses.
I would like to point out that the information I posted is simply a rumor at this point. I found it more believable than things I have heard in the past as it is specific, but is subject to change yadda, yadda, yadda....
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by Dezbend :One guy I talked to said they would be reevaluating the overall price structure when it is rolled out nationally. I don't know what that means, so I wont make any guesses. I would like to point out that the information I posted is simply a rumor at this point. I found it more believable than things I have heard in the past as it is specific, but is subject to change yadda, yadda, yadda.... yeah, I realize that it's still rumor; I was merely implying that if the rumor is true, that price is a little hefty.
if they do restructure it, I hope it means their lowest package (768k) will only cost $14.95 a month and their highest (10 meg) will cost $54.95 (-$10 if you bundle); still, I have my doubts about this, as people could get 768k for $4.95 a month. (though, if it were advertised, it might alleviate the bandwidth crunch, as there would probably be a LOT of users who would just want to get the cheapest thing possible, since they only use it on occasions). |
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robertfl
Premium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL
 ·Cox VOIP
| Right now, my ISP is offering 12 megs for $56 dollars a month.
I don't know how embarq is surviving up here. DSL wise. Though Cox is now doing redirects, (you type in a bad url, it redirects you to their search page)
Fort Walton Beach, FL is about 3 years behind the times.
I couldn't even get 3 meg embarq service here.
-Rob |
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