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join:2005-05-04
PA
| decreased discount amount... nice...how much money did they give some marketing person to come up with that nicely phrased way of saying you're screwed?
"For your convenience, you can keep your Verizon FIOS Triple Freedom" -- Really?! My goodness, better write home to ma and tell her the good news.
Just so they know, I am a FIOS customer and I am not going anywhere so please stop trying to fool me with the verbage in your contract...it doesnt fool anyone.
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join:2000-09-16
West Boylston, MA
| Re: decreased discount amount... Still better then having to pay comcast, $130 or some other triple play company. This sounds great to me because usually you see prices go up about $20-$30 after your year and have to threaten to cancel and beat them down to something more reasonable. | |
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| ashworth
join:2001-10-06
Pittsburgh, PA | Should have signed up for 2 years......that's the difference ($10). | |
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Mactron
el camino Real
Premium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv
1 edit | Gota love them... "Verizon going so far as to call it a "decreased discount amount" instead of a price hike:"
Marketers, Gota love them. Who else come comes up with stuff like that ?.. 
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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| Whether it's 99 or 109..... or 159 for that matter..I think it's all a good deal.
Whether it's from Verizon and their fios service or Comcast..TW or others..these providers are giving consumers a lot of value for this kind of money IMHO.
TV..phone..and internet..for 3 to 5 bucks a day total.
I don't know about YOU but I blow that on a coffee and muffin at dunkin donuts and compared to many things we all buy each day..I know of little to nothing that gives me the value..convenience..entertainment..enjoyment and whatever else that my Comcast bundle gives me each day.
IMHO..the real people that are missing out are those just going a la carte and buying each product individually.
The real value is in taking the bundles and enjoying everything these providers have to offer.
And so, whomever you choose..as long as they can offer decent service and are truly next generation providers..(LOL @ AT&T)...both Verizon w/ fios and most cable co's have some attractive offers for what amounts to very little money for all we get.
As for at&t..when exactly they'll wake up and smell the bandwidth remains to be seen..but time is running out for them.
Docsis 3.0 and verizon fios is going to finish them off.
Forever.
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ib50MbSoon
Formerly TwoKDialup
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Coloma, MI | LOL A nice 10% increase! Sounds like the Fios honeymoon is over.
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Cabal
Premium
join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA | Re: LOL Isn't this the 4th or 5th rate hike? | |
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Premium
join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL
| Re: LOL And downward trajectory begins. Look for satisfaction numbers to slowly creep down to cable levels. It all about $$$$$$ to customers and after a couple of years of Fios increases the pig will begin to just BE A PIG.
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join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD | Re: LOL Well, at least it will be a FAST pig. | |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Something like that. | |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
| Re: LOL said by Rick  :said by ib50MbSoon :A nice 10% increase! Sounds like the Fios honeymoon is over. The cable co's and Comcast have been at the fiber rollout game for over 10 years now..at a cost of over 100 BILLION Dollars. And that was in yesterdays money terms. oh plz. Cable companies do not offer fiber connections. Quit spreading their marketing lies. They may have fiber in their system, but it does nothing for the end user.
That is the worst marketing ploy to try to convince people that they can compete with FIOS
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Lee GWB
Yaco
Premium
join:2001-10-13
Allendale, NJ
1 edit | Strange I live in NNJ and I have 2 yr contract.
2 stb 1 HD DVR 20/20 inet Starz/Showtime Phone + Iobi total with Tax $125 +/- | |
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dogo88
join:2001-09-24
Old Bridge, NJ | Hmmm... So FiOS goes from $99 to $109 versus cable slugs triple play goes from $89/$99 to $159/$169. Seems like a no brainer. | |
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join:2007-07-20
Mechanicsburg, PA | Re: Hmmm... Uhhh.. This is news to me... there would be a $10 price increase if they were increasing their speeds.. | |
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Dogfather
Premium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
 ·Cox HSI
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·Verizon west (ex G..
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2 edits | TWC triple play here goes from $89 to $115 after 12 months.
TWC triple play inludes basic digital plus a choice of programming tier, 1 STB, HD locals, 6Mb/512Kb HSI, unlimited voice. 15/2 HSI is $10 more.
It's all the same crap and in my area where FiOS is a bit cheaper with programming (something like $43 vs $46, but they're more expensive with voice, HSI and equipment rentals.
Here just comes down to how many and what kind of boxes you want to rent. Fewer boxes, FiOS is cheaper, more boxes TWC is cheaper.
Where FiOS used to be a smoking deal, now they're just competitive. | |
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decadent
Premium
join:2002-04-02
Piscataway, NJ
| Re: Hmmm... FIOS is better than TWC. The thing that puzzles me, that everybody wants telcos to be dumb pipe, but when Vonage/ViaTalk starts using this dumb pipe, you start to hear, that they are not reliable as telcos or cablecos, so they should go away. So then why everybody asks for dumb pipe, but nobody wants to deal with a bit of issues with start-ups. Generally speaking, nothing prevents any start-up to offer IPTV over FIOS much cheaper than Verizon, but nobody will do it, because of example of Vonage/ViaTalk and etc. BTW, I have never seen official standpoint of dslreports on this issue. It seems, they don't like companies like Vonage/ViaTalk, but want telcos to be dumb pipe. It is not possible, it is one way or another. | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | play the game Well, you have to play the game... switch to the competition.. probably Cablevision in metro NY.. When an ONT goes UNUSED that will burn Verizon more than it will the customer who switches.. | |
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| donjuan2002
join:2002-10-06
Kearny, NJ | Re: play the game This have to be for old customer, Nj still geting $95 a month for new customers.? | |
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majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY | cablevision I guess verizon didnt think cablevision would be able to compete. Cablevision is doing a good job competing and is not easily winning over cablevision customers.
I wouldnt doubt if cablevision is the sole reason for this. | |
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq
·Fairpoint Communic..
| Do the math Verizon 15/15 is $65.00 a month. If your in a area with OTA reception, just pay for the 15/15, and DOWNLOAD all the TV shows you want. Every TV show is usually available within a couple of hours, and it's commercial free. Hell, you can download a TV show in about 4 minutes, and a HD version of the show in under 10 minutes. Setup your mythtv with an RSS feed, and poof, you're done.
Assuming you watch 3 tv shows per night, here's the cost savings you will see in 1 year :
Verizon Triple Play : 150.00/month = 1800.00/year
Verizon Fios (month): 65.00/month
1TB MythTV box : 700.00 (over 1000 hours, or about 1300 TV shows)
Savings in year 1 : $400.00/year
Savings after year 1:$1000.00/year
I don't know about you, but I can think of much better uses for $1000.00 a year than paying it to Verizon.
And you don't need to 'buy' the shows on DVD, you can burn your own HD versions of the same shows. The savings on that alone can add up to thousands a year.
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RickNY
Premium
join:2000-11-02
New York
| Isnt competition great? Cablevision raised the cost of their triple play for customers with iO Silver and iO Gold by $10 as well -- but they were more creative with how they implemented it. For us, it was a $5 increase on the cable TV portion, and a $5 decrease in the discount for the phone portion.
So Verizon responded in kind by also increasing the cost to customers by $10.. Isn't competition great? | |
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aguiar0016
join:2006-01-23
New Bedford, MA | is it possbile? So if someone signed up for a 1 yr offer and then after it ends to they have the option for sign up for a 2 yr package after that ? | |
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Comcast suck
join:2007-10-23
Bloomfield, CT | Comcast Rick I bet you can't go ONE post about not bashing At&t. | |
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OSUGoose
join:2007-12-27
Columbus, OH
clubs: | Re: Comcast Rick or prasing comcast as the allmight savior | |
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UncleDirtNap
join:2006-08-26
Pittsburgh, PA
·Verizon FIOS
| Still waiting for the service that goes down in price I find these blow by blow accounts of price increases amusing and often hypocritical. Everyone with a job wants regular raises, benefits, the newest equipment to work with, more time off the longer they've been at their job ... but when companies they buy a service from raise their rates to pay for these things and other costs that continually rise then the bitching and moaning begins.
At the end of the day even with a modest increase in price Verizon is still offering the best by far services for less money than any of its competition. Even if they were to raise their rates to the same as their competition the service performance and quality is so much better it's still the best value by far.
The best thing about the emerging competition in the industry, unlike the days of local cable monopolies, is that if you don't like the rate increase you can always switch back to cable...
But you won't and you know it. How about giving Verizon a little credit for offering best in class products and services and not charging what they COULD get for them if they desired. I won't dare speak aloud just how much I'd be willing to pay for my FIOS triple play if it meant that Comcast wouldn't enter my house ever again. I still remember how giddy I was that I could get a true 15/2 Internet connection that performed as advertised for less that the amount I would have been willing to pay for such a thing when I was stuck with Comcast's crap. | |
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SmartGuy
@verizon.net
| Come on now Are you guys really that ignorant? The price of everything is going up as the dollar loses more and more value. How much does it cost to fill up your gas tank per month compared to 5 years ago? Five years ago if someone told you that in five years you would be able to get 99.99% reliable 20/20 internet service, great TV service and, phone for under $150 a month, you would think they were a lunatic.
»www.minneapolisfed.org/research/···us/calc/ to find out the relative worth of a dollar compared to in the past. It took 15% more 2007 dollars to buy something compared to 2002. So quit whining and realize that competition is the one thing that has kept your TV phone and internet bills from skyrocketing. | |
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