gaforces
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join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
3 edits | Might be a good business deal
For the first year only, not good for me but might be a good business package. Also if you already have dsl you are not eligible for this service plan. |
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Nightfall
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join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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| Re: Not a good deal
I think it is an awesome deal. What have you been smoking?
Even if it reverts back to $70 a month after the first year, that is still a better deal than SBC is offering. 
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA | Actually, we don't know what SBC is offering yet... but if Sonic.net feels they can make a profit on $45/year, I expect SBC's pricing to be about the same.
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deblin
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join:2001-09-01
Middletown, DE
| It just doesn't make much sense...their current pricing for dynamic:
$26.95 - standard+
$36.95 - deluxe
$99.95 - expert+
I think that $99 expert+ promo is no longer available (at least according to their web page). But let's speak in terms of promo rates.
I don't understand why they'd offer expert+ for $45/mo. That's a pretty huge jump in my opinion. But if sonic can sell it for $45, you're right they probably will offer that as a promo rate, with perhaps $60/mo being the 'normal' rate.
So the question is, what will they do with static pricing?
The current dynamic(promo)->static deltas are:
$38 - standard+
$28 - deluxe
$60 - expert+
Notice the non-linear relationship. So assuming $60 more per month for the static expert+, can we expect $105($45+60)/mo for expert plus static? Or will it be $120($60+60)/mo? It will be interesting to see...also, I think they'll have to lower their deluxe static pricing, but SBC is weird about their static IPs, so who knows |
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clos
join:2002-08-13
Los Angeles, CA | reply to gaforces
Re: Might be a good business deal
Too bad they are not in my area. They only support the Bay Area in CA (what they told me). Oh well guess I'll stick with dsl extreme. |
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Kavan
join:2003-01-19
Santa Rosa, CA | Whoa, didn't know we made the front page. But in reply, we serve the northwestern lata, from about north monterey bay to eureka west coast, and the stockton/lodi pacbell lata. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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| reply to deblin
Re: Not a good deal
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That's a pretty huge jump in my opinion.
It is, but they want to beat cable at the bandwidth game, and they have that 6000/608 package lying around collecting dust, despite all of these deployed RTs getting sorely underitilized. And well, 6000/608 for $45 would kick Comcast square in the nuts! Sure as hell got me to change my plans...
-- Rob
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2farfromCO7
join:2000-10-14
Farmington, MI
| said by djrobx  :
quote:
And well, 6000/608 for $45 would kick Comcast square in the nuts!
-- Rob
Ouch, do we need to get that graphic? |
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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Middletown, DE | reply to djrobx
hehe very, very true |
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