dr3yec
join:2002-12-19
00000 | reply to Desdinova
Re: And I Suspect..
Totally agree. Caps would keep me from ever coming back. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| said by dr3yec  :Totally agree. Caps would keep me from ever coming back. And you prove the point for comcast. You're in a very small minority which won't matter to them. There is this notion that everyone's going to stream content from the internet.. The core customer who "spends money" doesn't care about going to several sources for content, the web being one of them. And, those that are trying to spend less to no money.. well, what you and MANY make the mistake of is that you're not the customer they want, or really have now, anyway.
You have to keep in mind that the people on this site by FAR are in the minority when it comes to the overall picture and don't/won't make an impact on their business.
This entire picture is economy based, not competition based. Most depressed people don't switch from one provider to another to save $15 to $20 a month as they're likely to think that it won't matter anyway so they stick it out where they are.
Logic, in many Americans, doesn't exist. |
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ashworth
join:2001-10-06
Pittsburgh, PA
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| Fortunately, the minority will be the majority in 10-20 years and I hope Comcast has their head between their knees at that time, like they did today. They are maxed out and will continue to lose residential subs, but are getting business customers in our area. They're gonna need more than DOCSIS 3.0 to compete with the future. They have a pipe that sucks. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| "They have a pipe that sucks."
How so? or did that just sound good?
"Comcast has their head between their knees at that time, like they did today."
Pouring it on a little thick today, huh? The amount of subs lost, today, was nothing.
Sprint lost millions of subs and they're still alive. As much as people love to root for companies "to die" many of them won't as you hope. Further, the "die" mentality only shoes one's ignorance in the market place. Sure, let's have all the companies we hate DIE.. and when you get the choices down to a small few, what do you think will happen to the price of the service at your favorite company? They're going to start going up.. but fortunate for many, you'll have someone new to hate again.
A subscriber loss is not the end of the world.. it happens. Some people need to stop their side job of analysist and leave that to those that understand business.
You are right about one thing.. they're going to need more than DOCSIS 3.0 to compete with the future.. um, duh?! Obvious statement. DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 was great until Verizon launched fiber (even though other companies were doing it for years albeit a smaller scale) but people like you seem to think that DOCSIS 3.0 is the end of the line. |
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