elray
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Santa Monica, CA | reply to WHT
Re: Overages ! Ca ching said by WHT:At $10 per 1 GB, I can see that working very well for Verizon investors.
Nope. Redbox Home Fusion streams will be off-net, toll-free, overage-exempt bulk-rate, forward-cached, etc.
Contrary to the drivel we read here daily, Verizon does not want overage charges; they want you to pay a hefty premium for their basic service and add-ons, but nothing punitive. That's bad for business. |
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WHT
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Rosston, TX
kudos:5 | Ahhh....the same excuse cable used to get around the Net Neutrality restriction.
Guess no one learned anything from the FCC slapping down Madison River. |
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I think they just want money and don't really care how they get it. And despite what a lot of people say about massive profits, their profit margin is really not that impressive. |
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Off-net - You mean in an intertube that violates net neutrality rules?
How are you and they going to try to skirt this one?
Are they going to attach all redbox's to their "local" intranet and call it local traffic?
Are they going to deliver it on the same "channel" as cable TV or PPV and say it isnt internet traffic? |
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Verizon is in the business of maximizing profits. So if Verizon can make more money from customers streaming from Netflix (via $10/GB overage charges) than from streaming from Redbox/Verizon (via a $8-10 monthly fee) then it will prefer the first option. |
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said by Skippy25:Off-net - You mean in an intertube that violates net neutrality rules?
How are you and they going to try to skirt this one?
Are they going to attach all redbox's to their "local" intranet and call it local traffic?
Are they going to deliver it on the same "channel" as cable TV or PPV and say it isnt internet traffic?
Just like the other companies with iptv and VoIP, that have internet caps. (ex. Uverse)
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | reply to Skippy25
said by Skippy25:Off-net - You mean in an intertube that violates net neutrality rules?
How are you and they going to try to skirt this one?
Are they going to attach all redbox's to their "local" intranet and call it local traffic?
Are they going to deliver it on the same "channel" as cable TV or PPV and say it isnt internet traffic?
Even assuming that Verizon had to observe Network Neutrality "rules" on Home Fusion, which they don't, NN only applies to Internet (capital-I) routed data, not private traffic. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | reply to silbaco
said by silbaco:I think they just want money and don't really care how they get it. And despite what a lot of people say about massive profits, their profit margin is really not that impressive.
They want the extra add-on revenue from Redbox.
Not overage charges.
As for margins, if they were "massive", or enjoyed "record profits", as the envious bankrupt socialist media likes to refer to, then another "greedy" firm would enter the market in pursuit of those dollars. We've seen how well Sprint and TMobile have fared. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | reply to PastTense
said by PastTense:Verizon is in the business of maximizing profits. So if Verizon can make more money from customers streaming from Netflix (via $10/GB overage charges) than from streaming from Redbox/Verizon (via a $8-10 monthly fee) then it will prefer the first option.
Wrong. Overage charges kill goodwill and beget turnover - Mom cancels the whole account and/or learns about prepaid. With iPhone customers worth at least $2K/each, no company is looking to offend over $10/gb; they want your $120/month and your two-year renewal.
Only Sprint has officially fired customers, and they paid for it. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to elray
Ever heard of barriers to entry?
The biggest problem with the Laissez-faire market theory is that it always assumes that at any time anyone can enter business and increase the supply of choices and competition. Since that isn't true, the rest of it also fails.
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | said by KrK:Ever heard of barriers to entry?
The biggest problem with the Laissez-faire market theory is that it always assumes that at any time anyone can enter business and increase the supply of choices and competition. Since that isn't true, the rest of it also fails.
Sprint-Nextel-Clear, TMobile, MetroPCS, Leap, Cricket, and to some extent, America Movil prove that those "barriers" are surmountable. |
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Lamiel
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Nope. Redbox Home Fusion streams will be off-net, toll-free, overage-exempt bulk-rate, forward-cached, etc.
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | said by Lamiel:Nope. Redbox Home Fusion streams will be off-net, toll-free, overage-exempt bulk-rate, forward-cached, etc.
Has that been confirmed by Verizon? Last I heard the terms of the plan were a complete unknown... Pure speculation. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK | reply to elray
Actually, they are proving that the barriers aren't surmountable.
Thus why so many MVNO's. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | said by KrK:Actually, they are proving that the barriers aren't surmountable.
Thus why so many MVNO's.
The existence of MVNO's only further prove that the barriers are surmountable. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK | Circular argument is circular. |
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