what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?
Harold A. Mackey
mackey at musc.edu
Wed May 11 18:49:50 UTC 2005
I spent many happy years on Comcast, during which time they offered $25
dollar specials every so often, but it always creeped back up to $40.
Bellsouth adsl seems to be no different in quality and service. I think they
are all quite aware of the 'going price', and do not intend to kill that
goose, at least not down here.
Thanks,
Harold
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of Adam
Jacob Muller
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:33 PM
To: Matt Bazan
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few
years?
It's simple,
A DSL provider like speakeasy offers much more to a technical user
like myself than Comcast does, plus they have an incentive to keep me
happy, if i'm not i can leave and go with a competitor, comcast does,
and has on many occasions, simply told me to go f*ck myself when i
have service issues. (Sorry your modem died sir, the next we can get
a tech out to your place is 2 weeks, when i don't need a tech I know
what it means when a modem has a failure code).
The fact is, DSL is a competitive market, Cable is not, competitive
markets keep customers happy, monopolies anger people.
Adam
On May 11, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Matt Bazan wrote:
>
> why in the world would anyone want to purchase dsl from a private
> reseller when i can get 4mb down 384 up from comcast for $25?
> think you
> dsl resellers out there are doomed. in fact, just a matter of time
> before most of you isps are down the toilet. im reminded of the
> mom and
> pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,
> a&p, whole foods etc. of course there will always be niche markets
> but
> this is less applicable for a pure commodity like bandwidth. yeah, i
> suppose you'll say something about value added services and such
> and you
> may have a point but i doubt that will keep the ship afloat for long.
>
>
> !DSPAM:42824b1926542573616784!
>
>
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