TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ |  New lower prices could get dial-up users to switch
The new lower tiers are priced such that they could get a large number of users to switch from dial-up. And the price drops on their faster tiers could get some users to switch from cable as well. |
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The Beer
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
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join:2001-07-24
Omaha, NE
clubs: | Yes and when the promotional price is over they will switch back.
If Qwest would have a respectful product at a good price they would not have this problem.
Just beat Cox with thier everyday price and be done with it. |
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Chewyrobbo
join:2005-04-12
Tacoma, WA | Thank you, At my GF's house she has dsl and the only tier available is 1.5, and we live in a pretty populated area, at my house i have the upgraded Comcast, BIIIIGGG difference. I wish Qworst would do some upgrades. |
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nutcr0cker
join:2003-04-02
Chandler, AZ
| Qwest and lower prices!
What the hell are they talking about the new tiers are only;y applicable if you have their bloated expensive crap aka the landline that cost about 24$ a month additional so for getting 14.99 for 1.5 mbps you pay 14.99+23.47 = 38.44. I would not call this a lower price exactly |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
 ·Armstrong Zoom In..
 ·AT&T Midwest
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Re: New lower prices could get dial-up users to switch
said by TKJunkMail  :The new lower tiers are priced such that they could get a large number of users to switch from dial-up. And the price drops on their faster tiers could get some users to switch from cable as well. I'm willing to say no. The dial-up users don't want to "spend that much money" on internet access. If they can find something for $9.99 a month, they'll stick. Trust me I have an Aunt and Uncle like that, they won't spend the extra $10 a month and get basic DSL, oh and you can throw a rock at their CO from their house.
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viperlmw
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join:2005-01-25
·Qwest.net
| said by dslwanter :said by TKJunkMail :The new lower tiers are priced such that they could get a large number of users to switch from dial-up. And the price drops on their faster tiers could get some users to switch from cable as well. I'm willing to say no. The dial-up users don't want to "spend that much money" on internet access. If they can find something for $9.99 a month, they'll stick. Trust me I have an Aunt and Uncle like that, they won't spend the extra $10 a month and get basic DSL, oh and you can throw a rock at their CO from their house. Yea, lots of these people still have Win98 machines, because 'this one works just fine!'. I put some old parts of mine into my mother-in-law's machine, enough that it would run Vista, but she still won't switch from dial-up. |
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knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
·AT&T DSL Service
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said by dslwanter :said by TKJunkMail :The new lower tiers are priced such that they could get a large number of users to switch from dial-up. And the price drops on their faster tiers could get some users to switch from cable as well. I'm willing to say no. The dial-up users don't want to "spend that much money" on internet access. If they can find something for $9.99 a month, they'll stick. Trust me I have an Aunt and Uncle like that, they won't spend the extra $10 a month and get basic DSL, oh and you can throw a rock at their CO from their house. I see you've been reading the minds of our marketing department. Yes, for $9.99 (which is really $10, we all know that), people have no problem paying for faster Internet service. Even a lowly 768 kbps connection is light years faster than "dial, then redial" 28k to 53k service. 
Customers are very happy with the speed difference because anything double that of dial up is actually noticeable to them. Unlike going from 6 MB to 10MB for the "average Joe" user anyway. Power users, of course, notice the difference. 
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skitterybob
join:2007-10-31
Minneapolis, MN
| reply to Chewyrobbo
/start rant/
I second that. I am surrounded by DSL. My block and the next block east of me don't because we're all on pair gain. If you go 900' any direction from my house and DSL is available because those areas aren't pair gain. Dang Qwest won't redo the lines to remove the pair gain. Do some upgrades!
/end rant/
I can see where Qwest is coming from in my situation though. It's not worth it to do all the work for what will amount to a few new DSL subscribers. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
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Thank You!
Instead of bitching about this I say thank you for saving me some money. Yes I have bundle pricing which I am perfectly happy with. I'll I have heard about is Cox has this Comcast has that bla-bla-bla. I am now going sit back and wait for the "well in Japan they have a 100,000,000,000,000 Mbps connection for $3.95, grr, snarl, row, gritting teeth...
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IowaStudent
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join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA
·Mediacom
·Iowa Telecom
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Re: Qwest and lower prices!
Exactly, We left Iowa Telecom for Mediacom after we got tired of paying $60 a month just for Internet access and of course $30 of that was for a phoneline which never got used and 1.5 Mb DSL plus, they had Interleaved turned on at the DSLAM which made the connection even worse 50 MS from my router to there core router and now I0 13 MS with Mediacom |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: New lower prices could get dial-up users to switch
said by TKJunkMail :The new lower tiers are priced such that they could get a large number of users to switch from dial-up. And the price drops on their faster tiers could get some users to switch from cable as well. At any point during the earth's rotation, some regions are dark while others benefit from sunlight.
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
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Re: Qwest and lower prices!
said by nutcr0cker :What the hell are they talking about the new tiers are only;y applicable if you have their bloated expensive crap aka the landline that cost about 24$ a month additional so for getting 14.99 for 1.5 mbps you pay 14.99+23.47 = 38.44. I would not call this a lower price exactly It's called "becuase they can't run a major telecom on everyone buying a $14.95 per month product!" ... it's a reality check that most people here don't get!
DSL is not a money maker at $14.95. Well, at least in the case of Verizon it was becuase when the service has issues, and it does, getting them to fix it is worse than pulling teeth on a bangle tiger. One service call and that customer is a loss - doesn't anyone see this?
The rate drop is a lost leader.. its a way to get attention. The UPPER tiers are where the price reductions should have been all along. The lower price tiers are already reasonably priced for the product at hand.
What people want, here at least, is to be able to buy a product at dirt cheap prices.. get the bundle or loyal prices that are meant for marketing purposes or loyal customers who spend more and not have to commit to the company elsewhere other than their tiny $14 a month. At that price, it's okay for many becuase they expect others to subsidize that "bloated crap" so the rest can have the cheap services. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to The Beer
Re: New lower prices could get dial-up users to switch
said by The Beer :Yes and when the promotional price is over they will switch back. Not so fast there bubby. promo period is 12 months, minimum contract length is 18 months. so you're stuck for 6 months after your rates shoot back up if you don't want to be hit with ETF!
and in the end it is STILL QWEST SERVICE!
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The Beer
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
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join:2001-07-24
Omaha, NE
clubs:
 ·ViaTalk
| Yea I did the math, I switched back recently... here is why.
I live 2 blocks from the RDSLAM
They gave me a $100 NFM Gift Card (And I was buying a new TV that day anyway)
Paid my phone package for 3 Months
I need the phone line for the alarm (Nextalarm is to expensive now)
Cox is like $55/mo for just internet now.
Qwest was like $52/mo all taxes for package and 6.0/mo first year, $60 there after on price for life.
Hopefully the package stays at $25/mo.
So I will ride it out, sure it's slower than cox but I get my port 25 and 80 
As for qwest service.... they ran out of pairs for my house (I have an unrelated T1) so they threw a CAT5 on the fence till they could come bury it, that was 4 months ago. |
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cbessant
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join:2008-08-13
Peyton, CO
| reply to Transmaster
Re: Thank You!
said by Transmaster :I am now going sit back and wait for the "well in Japan they have a 100,000,000,000,000 Mbps connection for $3.95, grr, snarl, row, gritting teeth... There is probably a subsidy from the government involved as NTT is probably state owned?
We just got 1.5Mbps DSL from Qwest this week - it was just made available. I have a 3Mbps wireless service ($45/month) w/VoIP for $20/month (unlimited) that I use for LD, and the rates are great for calls to Europe. VoIP was a tad choppy on the wireless, but over copper it should be fine.
I need 2 different ISPs as we work from home/telecommute and can't afford outages. So, my wireless is $45, the VoIP is $20, DSL is $15 (I know, $30 after the promo ends, but it is less than my other wireless that I will cancel once I'm sure Qwest DSL is stable enough to trust), and the Qwest landline ($24 + VM + CallerID = like $45/month). We don't have cable where we live (rural).
Qwest is the only wire to the house. If they offered a higher-speed package, I'd take it. I'll keep DirecTv with DirecTv as I don't need Qwest being the middleman. I'll never see fiber. |
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ch
@aol.com | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: New lower prices could get dial-up users to switch
Thats just a temp offer the price will go up |
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ch
@aol.com
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