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Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?
From: Adam Jacob Muller <adam () gotlinux us>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:33:00 -0400
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 privatereseller when i can get 4mb down 384 up from comcast for $25? think youdsl resellers out there are doomed. in fact, just a matter of timebefore most of you isps are down the toilet. im reminded of the mom andpop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,a&p, whole foods etc. of course there will always be niche markets butthis is less applicable for a pure commodity like bandwidth. yeah, isuppose you'll say something about value added services and such and youmay have a point but i doubt that will keep the ship afloat for long. !DSPAM:42824b1926542573616784!
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- what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Matt Bazan (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Adam Jacob Muller (May 11)
- RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Harold A. Mackey (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Adam McKenna (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Bruce Pinsky (May 11)
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- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Jay R. Ashworth (May 11)
- RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Harold A. Mackey (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Sam Hayes Merritt, III (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Adam Jacob Muller (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Jim Popovitch (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Crist Clark (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Bob Martin (May 11)
- Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Gary E. Miller (May 11)
- RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? Shane Owens (May 11)