RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

["Harold A. Mackey" <mackey () musc edu>]

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 () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Adam
Jacob Muller
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:33 PM
To: Matt Bazan
Cc: nanog () 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 pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,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.
>
>
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