Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-01
IA
 ·Mediacom
| Don't do it!
Not because I'm a cable guy. Don't do it because if enough people start canceling, ISPs will start implementing caps and start jacking prices up every year. If this continues you'll end up paying more for capped internet access and soon we'll be whining about yearly price increases for high speed services...
Also I would not be surprised if content providers start charging for online access and adding even more commercials. |
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knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| said by Anonymous  :Not because I'm a cable guy. Don't do it because if enough people start canceling, ISPs will start implementing caps and start jacking prices up every year. If this continues you'll end up paying more for capped internet access and soon we'll be whining about yearly price increases for high speed services... Also I would not be surprised if content providers start charging for online access and adding even more commercials. I hope they do, it means more business for me. Don't count out the little guy ISP just yet 
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
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said by Anonymous :Don't do it because if enough people start canceling, ISPs will start implementing caps and start jacking prices up every year. If this continues you'll end up paying more for capped internet access and soon we'll be whining about yearly price increases for high speed services... Also I would not be surprised if content providers start charging for online access and adding even more commercials. These things will happen regardless. Metered Inet is coming as sure as you can say comcrap.
Not that many people have to drop for prices to increase per sub. I pay $61 for analog cable TV service w/Comcast. It's ridiculous for what I get. I'm now hooked up with streaming and DVD rentals, and if not for one household member and cable addiction, I'd dump cable yesterday, and I don't think I can get more than two OTA channels at my location. There comes a point when companies price themselves out of business. The cable industry is closing in on that point, and their only recourse will be to meter your bandwidth.
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| reply to Anonymous
said by Anonymous :Not because I'm a cable guy. Don't do it because if enough people start canceling, ISPs will start implementing caps and start jacking prices up every year. If this continues you'll end up paying more for capped internet access and soon we'll be whining about yearly price increases for high speed services... Also I would not be surprised if content providers start charging for online access and adding even more commercials. First of all, I call BULL$H*T on this one.. what it WILL mean is that HIGHER speed services will get into the home faster and more widely available... and lower tiered services for those who don't download video all the time can have sub 10mbit services to be had for under $20 a month! While 100mbit symmetric will be around $80-125 per month but also serves as your video pipe as well. Telco does not necessarily move lock-step with the cable providers in instituting caps / degraded internet service, and if they do... they will suffer the consequences of new providers coming out of the woodworks to profit from that poor choice.
The problem with this is there are some winners and losers if something like this gains steam... the ESTABLISHED cable industry will be at a vast disadvantage due to part of that 'market' going the illegal route and bittorrenting all the video they want without paying a cent. The biggest winner are FTTP providers selling no-compromise fiber internet connections and charge a nice premium for the QOS node provisioning that is simply not there in current docsis 1.0 - 2.0 deployments. The cable industry (many established cable providers such as Comcast, Cablevision and others have a vested interest in keeping every cent they're due for subscriptions and then some) but this business model will have to evolve or be subject to the competitive reality on the ground of a potential symmetric 100mbit service provided by Verizon and what that could mean for future revenue to cable-tv (video data). |
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Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-01
IA | Either way cable cos will get their money. They know they have the network and it's not going to be easy for someone to build anything from scratch (see FIOS).
US shareholders don't like the idea of huge investments. |
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yolarry
join:2007-12-29
Creston, WV | well hes got a point.
We get f--k in the a-s one way or another. |
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