[TriLUG] TWC "Existing Customer Promotion"

[Carl Crider]

Thanks to the OP for this thread. I called, I saved $23 a month. Nice to
know they are doing this again.



On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:43:33 -0400
> Chris Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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
>
> > 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.
>
> Imagine a world with one car company, one bicycle company, and one
> skateboard company. You work forty miles from home. You can buy a car
> for $100K, a bicycle for $10K, or a skateboard for $1K. You gripe about
> having to spend $100K, and you assert there's no competition. In
> passing, you mention that a bike would be $10K and a skateboard $1K.
>
> Your friend says to you: "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?"
>
> The bike is a different product than the car. And, unless you live very
> close to the telephone exchange building, twisted pair is a different
> product than coax (or fiber).
>
> SteveT
>
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