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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: well well well It won't do anything. The won't increase speeds, lower prcies or raise caps. Why should they? Their only customers are people that live in the boonies who only other choice is dial-up. Except the satelite companies are too stupid to realize that those most of those people would rather put up with dial-up or no internet at all than to put up with what satelite calls "service" | |
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TK Junk Mail
Go ahead, make my day
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join:2002-03-03
Margate City, NJ
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| Re: well well well said by BF69  :It won't do anything. The won't increase speeds, lower prcies or raise caps. Why should they? Their only customers are people that live in the boonies who only other choice is dial-up. Except the satelite companies are too stupid to realize that those most of those people would rather put up with dial-up or no internet at all than to put up with what satelite calls "service" They will use it to expand the number of customers they can serve. And they will get new customers no matter what you think about people sticking with dial-up instead of using satellite connections.
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: well well well said by TK Junk Mail :said by BF69 :It won't do anything. The won't increase speeds, lower prices or raise caps. Why should they? Their only customers are people that live in the boonies who only other choice is dial-up. Except the satellite companies are too stupid to realize that those most of those people would rather put up with dial-up or no Internet at all than to put up with what satellite calls "service" They will use it to expand the number of customers they can serve. And they will get new customers no matter what you think about people sticking with dial-up instead of using satellite connections. Yes I heard that from wild blue too. they claim their satellite will offer 6x time the capacity. How's that goal of getting 6X as many customers working out so far for them? It's insane if they think they're going to get 6X time as many customers with their service and prices as is. Same thing goes with hughesnet.
ther is an old saying in business "It's easy to keep a customer than get get a new one" They should think about that. Satisfy CURRENT customers befoere going after new ones. | |
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join:2003-11-07
Carol Stream, IL
| Re: well well well said by brandon :said by BF69 :It won't do anything. The won't increase speeds, lower prcies or raise caps. Why should they? Their only customers are people that live in the boonies who only other choice is dial-up. said by BF69 :Except the satelite companies are too stupid to realize that those most of those people would rather put up with dial-up or no internet at all than to put up with what satelite calls "service" I believe that's called "answering your own question." I was gona say the same thing..
I'm amazed at how many people ask a question just so they can vent thier personal opinions about it in their own answer.. I'm just glad most of them are smart enough to just put it in one post..  | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: well well well said by stunod2002 :said by brandon :said by BF69 :It won't do anything. The won't increase speeds, lower prcies or raise caps. Why should they? Their only customers are people that live in the boonies who only other choice is dial-up. said by BF69 :Except the satelite companies are too stupid to realize that those most of those people would rather put up with dial-up or no internet at all than to put up with what satelite calls "service" I believe that's called "answering your own question." I was gona say the same thing.. I'm amazed at how many people ask a question just so they can vent thier personal opinions about it in their own answer.. I'm just glad most of them are smart enough to just put it in one post.. Um since when it is not allowed to post one's opinion on this messagebaord? It seem YOU are doing just that. Get a life. | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Good for Hughes Im willing to bet Hughes still will leave there caps in place and not change anything over it.
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audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI
| faster POS sales The founding customer base for Hughes is Point of Sales transactions processing. Look at the roof of Gas stations, large chain stores for the dish. Residential is a relatively new thing for them. This means that during busy times of the day the extra capacity will go to POS processing. And I know you have swiped the card and experienced a delay of 30 or more seconds for the transaction to complete. | |
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| manhole
join:2000-09-12
Modesto, CA
clubs: | Re: faster POS sales Yes, exactly. I know one of their big customers is the California Lottery. Most stores that sell lottery tickets here in California use Hughes as their connection. That is a pretty large customer base just from that. | |
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aaron8301
I can't get myself to go away.
join:2005-01-03
Clarkston, WA | Re: faster POS sales Same in Washington, and I assume most states. The convenience store I once worked at had one HN dish for lottery, and another for POS transactions. | |
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tdba
@belgacom.be
| mm, do not agree with that entirely. Their consumer base is growing 15.000 a month, and believe me, the B2B business isn't growing that much (less than 10% actually in NA). Agree, Spaceway certainly will bring new applications to the B2B arena, but the consumer business is certainly not playground for Hughes. | |
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SBS
@cox.net | Re: faster POS sales 90% of the pay at the pump transactions in the US is VSAT based. It never takes me more than 3-4 seconds. | |
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