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Do You Care About The 'Quadruple Play'?
Cable providers not sold on wireless as fourth bundle option
by Karl Bode Monday 22-Jan-2007 tags: business · wireless · cable · bundles
We mentioned last week how Time Warner Cable's co-branded Sprint wireless phone service won't be bundled with their other offerings -- instead it will be sold as a stand alone product, marketed from a converged service (control your DVR from your phone!) angle. Despite massive investment and ongoing trials, Comcast's CEO isn't sold on wireless bundles, recently stating "that's not something we see consumers lusting after." Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan isn't sure the wireless quadruple play makes much sense either. "I find it hard to concede that a wireless add-on to a triple play would cause someone to rip out all of their home services at this point in time," says Dolan. "I don't think it is a significant driver."

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RayW
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No

Telephone and DSL/HS internet.
jtel

join:2005-06-28
Bristol, RI

Re: No

I don't care to bundle services just for the sake of having one larger bill.

I find it difficult to believe the cable co's just finished spending $2.4 billion on spectrum at the auction but have so little interest in having a wireless product.
RayW
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Re: No

said by jtel:

I find it difficult to believe the cable co's just finished spending $2.4 billion on spectrum at the auction but have so little interest in having a wireless product.
The Microsoft (and others) school of thought. Lock up anything that might let someone else make money in an area that you might want to someday.
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phattieg

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said by RayW:

Telephone and DSL/HS internet.
The quadruple play won't be worth it for me until they give you one phone number for home and mobile. The I could see it being practical, but until then, this is just a waste of time.
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RayW
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Re: No

Since I do not have a cell phone, then it would REALLY be a waste.

Just want telephone and DSL, and I wish they would stop wasting my time with those mailed ads (wonder how much that adds to my bill) to get all the extra services, video, and other whizbangs.
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amungus
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nope

not one bit.

I'd care if cable companies would LOWER rates for once...

Who honestly cares about the majority of cable channels anyway?

...all I want out of 'em is television, and internet. and if it came down to it, I'd rather pay 'em for that 6Mhz of bandwidth for internet than all the rest of what's coming down that wire spewing out useless, unused video signals.

inteller
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join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK

sprints network is overpimped anyways.

They pimp out their network to every MVNO that comes calling anyways. I'd actually run the other way if my cable co offers it.
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MysticGogeta
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League City, TX

Depends

If its lowers my bill..yes after all thats what we all want. If its the same or higher no.
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EUS
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Do You Care About The 'Quadruple Play'?

Nope.
degauss1

join:2001-07-02
Hillsboro, OR

Re: Do You Care About The 'Quadruple Play'?

I'm for it if it can be offered at a discount and is reliable. I'd think VZ could do a really kick-ass job if they offered the whole hog - HSI,TV,Phone and Voice/Data wireless.

battleop

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That would be a noper.
nasadude

join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
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no

I don't even care about the double play. I could care less about a consolidated bill.

with the option these days to pay online or even automatic deductions, it's actually easier to see what the provider of each service is charging if you get the services separately.

how the hell are you going to tell if your "quadruple play" provider mis-charges without spending time poring over the consolidated bill and probably spending time on the phone?

morbo
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Re: no

said by nasadude:

I could care less about a consolidated bill.
agreed. why do they keep touting this as such a huge advantage? so it takes an extra 2 minutes to write a check, 30 seconds to use online bill pay, or 0 seconds for auto pay by credit card. a combined bill is not a miracle.

gpidock
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quadruple play?

No.
Not even with bundle discounts.
I don't even care about double play either.

Matt
All noise, no signal.
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Jamestown, NC
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Nope

Nor the triple play
disc

join:2005-12-31
Raleigh, NC

dual-mode voip wifi/CDMA phones?

That would be nice to have. »www.lightreading.com/document.as···id=98130
alfnoid
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only if it is cheaper that way

if it would save me some money...Yes, I would be interested.

peace

SOLdesign
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whatever-play

not interested. we dont need a home phone. we have a contract with cell phone, can't break that, unless the cable co is willing to pay the penalty
patcat88

join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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quad plays

Makes sense to gather in and contract up your customers as much as possible. People will fall for the Quadruple play, but there is one question, what kind of price are cell companies going to use to bring customers into quadplays, since if you think about it, the triple plays get consumers mainly by $$$, not single bill or other crap, and all the triple play services are unlimited, what happens when you put in a multi tier (of minutes) system of cell phone plans? Will be hard to pull people in unless there is a unlimited cell phone plan, and those are prohibited so far by the cell phone market.
itguy05

join:2005-06-17

Nope

Don't care about the triple plays - too expensive when I consider I pay Vonage $15/mo for service, the discount on cable is laughable, and so is the discount on the internet.

Could care less about triple/quad plays.

viperpa33s
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Bradenton, FL

Wouldn't care

I don't care for triple play or even quadruple play. If they offered you a choice individually and wouldn't charge you extra for not getting it bundled, then I don't have a problem with it.

Iridium
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Los Angeles, CA

I won't even be looking at cable internet

till they stop charging non cable tv subscribers more money to get online than if you subscribe to both.
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Matt
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Re: I won't even be looking at cable internet

said by Iridium:

till they stop charging non cable tv subscribers more money to get online than if you subscribe to both.
At least you can get cable internet without cable TV.

I have no such option with DSL unless I purchase a POTS line.
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phantom6294

join:2002-02-27
Abingdon, MD
And how is that different from Telcos requiring a phone line to get DSL AND/OR charging more for naked DSL (if naked DSL is even available)???
mitska

join:2001-12-25
Sarasota, FL

well

Well, I think the price point needs to be around 100 bucks/month weather it is 3 or 4 bundled services. Then I believe people would hop on board...

CylonRed
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Bloom County

I certainly...

Do not care inthe least...

tc1uscg

join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI

eggs in one basket

Even if they were the same price, they will have to offer something more (features) to get people to consider it. I.e., able to watch what your dvr records, etc.. now wouldn't that be a feature we all want.. .. I think one of the biggest mistakes wireless carriers did cater to mvno's. You either have a network or you don't. If you want a network that bad, buy it or sell used cars.

dadkins
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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Sure! As long as...

No 2-3 year contract, decent phones/services to choose from, and all on the same bill!

Just tack it on the bill (for at least a semi-reasonable price) with all the goodies!

Ya gots my address, send that cell now!
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killthequad

@verizon.net

Quad core, Quad Presidential Candiattes, Quad Wireless?

who cares, really..
1. Internet, unlimited usage...
2. Phone, unlimited calling,
3. TV... well they're greedy, for content-- see #1.
4. Cell phone, Wireless? rip-off.. muni taxes, see #2 for the 'other porkchop' telcos throw at you'

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