hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
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April 23rd, @12:26PM
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Re: They have been running out of modems!
said by tshirt  :said by swhitney2003 :Agreed. I would take 5/5 for same price I pay now, maybe a little more. They current tier pricing is what it is because {1 it is above the cost of providing the service (we call that return on investment/profit) If that's the case then Verizon must but losing money big time. 
I call greed on this one.
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espaeth
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| said by hopeflicker :said by tshirt :They current tier pricing is what it is because {1 it is above the cost of providing the service (we call that return on investment/profit) If that's the case then Verizon must but losing money big time. I call greed on this one. Verizon is losing money on FiOS right now. Just a couple months ago were showing only a 16% adoption rate on the service, which isn't nearly good enough to justify the rollout expense.
The driver behind footing the expense was being able to get into the video services market, not providing higher upload speeds. HSI alone wouldn't deliver any kind of reasonable ROI for Verizon. |
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tshirt
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Snohomish, WA
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Verizon sells a number of different Internet services, but I'm assuming you're comparing current FIOS prices to this comcast offering.
without looking at their books, and weighting the longterm costs and benefits of each of these different technologies but both aiming to capture a share of the lucrative triple play+ market it's not possible to access their cost/profit ratio
Judging how investor have treated Verizon stock, I'd say there is a feeling that their current service prices are far too low, however they are still trying for higher market share/penetration rates.
No one can really say what the longterm charges will be.
Corporations don't have GREED, they balance demand vs supply to achive the highest possible return for their investors. |
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mod_wastrel
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If they're anything like me, then those who could "adopt" Verizon's FiOS TV (or triple play) don't do so solely because they just KNOW Verizon's going to screw-up their monthly bill once they move off of having just FiOS (or any single service). Once Verizon shows me they have the billing for their bundles straightened out, then I'll jump all over their TV product (though I doubt I'll ever use their phone service again, unless it's effectively free, as in, 3 for the price of 2). |
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moko
join:2002-12-22
Fayetteville, GA | reply to tshirt
if corporations are run by humans....than theere will always be greed in it....thats when they "don't" balance supply and demand |
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NormanS
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| Corporations are, essentially, amoral. Neither greed, nor altruism are a part of their essence. A corporation is just an organized mob. Do some research on "mob psychology". People in groups (mobs, or corporations) are capable of doing things that they would not do individually.
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