myokitis
join:2004-06-19
Alexandria, VA
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Re: ISP/Video Competition
said by jimbo2150  :said by myokitis :You obviously don't live in an area where you only have 2 options that have not changed in over a decade and commonly see people in areas that have 1 or no broadband options. I understand where you're coming from. But that doesn't change the fact that both groups of companies are indeed intensely competing against each other for survival. It's just that your area probably isn't one of their primary battlegrounds. |
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sivran
Long Live The Suite
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
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| Ain't it funny, too, how the "trial areas" are all non-competitive market...
I live in the middle of the DFW area, and the "competition" here is little more than the mere presence of two broadband ISPs: AT&T and TWC. They set up shop, display their wares, and that's pretty much the extent of the competition. They don't even try to respond to one another. It's a "We're here. Pick one." kind of situation.
Being that Verizon FIOS is ~30 miles away from Arlington (and practically non-existent in Tarrant County, and our ILEC is AT&T, I wouldn't be surprised if one of those "trials" showed up here.
Frontier did everyone a favor by making noise about dropping caps in Rochester. What did AT&T do in Beaumont? Implement caps themselves. If you ask AT&T, competition is the race to see who can gouge their customers more.
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| said by sivran :If you ask AT&T, competition is the race to see who can gouge their customers more. I couldn't agree more. It seems as though the two compete against themselves to see who can create the most confusing package to entice a customer to their service. All the while providing the least amount of actual service possible.
They don't compete on the actual merits of their respective offering. Verizon and Cablevision seems to be the only larger companies who do that. |
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jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
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said by myokitis :I understand where you're coming from. But that doesn't change the fact that both groups of companies are indeed intensely competing against each other for survival. It's just that your area probably isn't one of their primary battlegrounds. I understand that, but you were also making it sound like the select few areas that they are competing equates to the entire (or at least a majority) of the market, which it does not. I just don't see the "ravenous" competition that they so often claim. For example: Just because they are competing in, lets say five, select markets... is it really necessary to claim stiff competition when the majority are not in areas with much or any competition? See my point?
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myokitis
join:2004-06-19
Alexandria, VA
| said by jimbo2150 :... is it really necessary to claim stiff competition when the majority are not in areas with much or any competition? See my point? I think I do, but it sounds like you're speaking in terms of %of geography, while the companies need to look at things in terms of %of customers (where their revenue comes from).
The current acquisition offers d'jour from select MSOs & Telcos are around $200 in value (cashback,credits, etc; I know of at last one major telco and one major MSO w/ offers like this), and the companies wouldn't be spending that $$$ to win customers from each other if they didn't think they needed to, if their management and shareowners weren't applying the pressure on their organizations to do so.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. This is a situation where "position determines perspective". |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
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At every post, you're displaying arrogance. Survival? Hardly.. dominance? Sure..
In the SMALLER areas, you may have a provider, such as Embarq, competing for survival.. bu that just goes to show why all the smaller companies merged and sold to larger ones back in the late 90's/2000's.
No.. right now, it's about dominance and king. But, it's not an over blown survival game like you say it is... far from it in MOST cases. |
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