[TriLUG] TWC "Existing Customer Promotion"

Chris Merrill chris at webperformance.com
Fri Mar 14 09:43:33 EDT 2014


So you're saying that if there are multiple options and one suits your needs much better than the
other, then there is no competition?

That's an unusual definition of competition.



On 3/14/2014 9:16 AM, Brian Henning wrote:
>> AT&T recently started offering up to I think 6mbps, but that is not exactly 'rampant' competition.
> 
> This was the point I was trying to make earlier about cable/DSL/WiMAX not being truly in competition.
> 
> Fastest cable speed available to me at any cost: 50Mbps/5Mbps
> Fastest DSL speed available to me at any cost: 6Mbps/??? (Frontier does not advertise their upstream bandwidth)
> Fastest WiMAX speed available to me at any cost: 5-12Mbps/2-5Mbps
> 
> Tell me exactly how 6Mbps competes with 50Mbps, or with 5-12Mbps that might drop to .001 when it rains or the wind is blowing or I walk through a particular room in the house.
> 
> If I'm a 50/5 Wideband customer with Time Warner Cable, there *is no alternative.*  Even in the case of reality (I'm a 15/2 Broadband customer) there's no alternative.
> 
> Where are these "competitors" you speak of?
> ~B
> 


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