Nightfall
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Re: Not a good deal
I think it is an awesome deal. What have you been smoking?
Even if it reverts back to $70 a month after the first year, that is still a better deal than SBC is offering. 
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djrobx
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Valencia, CA | Actually, we don't know what SBC is offering yet... but if Sonic.net feels they can make a profit on $45/year, I expect SBC's pricing to be about the same.
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deblin
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| It just doesn't make much sense...their current pricing for dynamic:
$26.95 - standard+
$36.95 - deluxe
$99.95 - expert+
I think that $99 expert+ promo is no longer available (at least according to their web page). But let's speak in terms of promo rates.
I don't understand why they'd offer expert+ for $45/mo. That's a pretty huge jump in my opinion. But if sonic can sell it for $45, you're right they probably will offer that as a promo rate, with perhaps $60/mo being the 'normal' rate.
So the question is, what will they do with static pricing?
The current dynamic(promo)->static deltas are:
$38 - standard+
$28 - deluxe
$60 - expert+
Notice the non-linear relationship. So assuming $60 more per month for the static expert+, can we expect $105($45+60)/mo for expert plus static? Or will it be $120($60+60)/mo? It will be interesting to see...also, I think they'll have to lower their deluxe static pricing, but SBC is weird about their static IPs, so who knows |
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djrobx
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Valencia, CA
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That's a pretty huge jump in my opinion.
It is, but they want to beat cable at the bandwidth game, and they have that 6000/608 package lying around collecting dust, despite all of these deployed RTs getting sorely underitilized. And well, 6000/608 for $45 would kick Comcast square in the nuts! Sure as hell got me to change my plans...
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2farfromCO7
join:2000-10-14
Farmington, MI
| said by djrobx  :
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And well, 6000/608 for $45 would kick Comcast square in the nuts!
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Ouch, do we need to get that graphic? |
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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Middletown, DE | reply to djrobx
hehe very, very true |
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