[TriLUG] TWC "Existing Customer Promotion"

[Ric Moore]

On 03/14/2014 09:16 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?

You could consider satellite services to be "competitors" ~in theory~. I 
use Hughes, since I'm in the hinterlands, and you REALLY have to be hard 
up to use it. It does serve a purpose as when it does work, it's faster 
than dial-up, ...but not always. Ric


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