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Elf Wizard
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: Gmail tool warns when sending emails with missing attachment gotta give Google credit for being creative.
wonder how long until MS swipes this idea and makes outlook do it.
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dadkins
Merry Whatever
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| Cable broadband is beating DSL to a pulp "During the quarter, Verizon added only 54,000 new subscribers (DSL), down from 288,000 in 2007. Baby Bell brothers AT&T and Qwest did not fare well either as they only added only 46,000 and 31,000 subscribers respectively."
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"Cable, despite its own subscriber slowdowns, continues to crank up the broadband subscriber volume.
Leading the cable broadband pack was Comcast. While its numbers overall were down 18% from 339,000 new subs in Q2 2007, Comcast added 278,000 new broadband subscribers.
Not far behind Comcast was Time Warner Cable with 201,000 subscriber additions."
Cost is not king apparently. 
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Elf Wizard
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
| i have to agree, cable is in the better place to offer a triple play as their networks can already do it. while in a non fios/Uverse area the telco cant just start offering 100s of channels, phone, 6mbit+ internet on the same feed.
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| Re: Cable broadband is beating DSL to a pulp said by Kearnstd  :i have to agree, cable is in the better place to offer a triple play as their networks can already do it. while in a non fios/Uverse area the telco cant just start offering 100s of channels, phone, 6mbit+ internet on the same feed. Uverse can barely do it. It's not even an option for a multi tv home. | |
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dadkins
Merry Whatever
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
edit:
September 16th, @10:50PM
| Re: Cable broadband is beating DSL "It’s an experience effect," says Piper. "The more that consumers can do with higher speeds the more they want it."
Naw... cheap used to be king, speed is quickly becoming what people want.
More and more, people have the "Want it now" attitude.
768k - 1.5mbps DSL aint cutting it.
Price is being pounded by larger files and buffering videos.
AT&T
One of our best high-speed Internet deals ever!
New, limited-time offer.
Now, for only
$14.99
per month
Upto 768k
Screw price!
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join:2004-11-03
Fairfield, CA | Re: Cable broadband is beating DSL No, Perceived Value will always be king. | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: Cable broadband is beating DSL said by dadkins :Lowest priced tiers - but what are the speeds they are getting? 768k? 1.5mbps? 4mbps? 6? El Cheapo DSL is sucking wind - regardless of it being $14.95. Cheapest Comcast is $42.95, right? Speed is dominating in new customer adoption. If price was king, dialup would be ruling @ $9.99 Speed my friend... speed. You know for many people 768 kbps is plenty fast enough. Dial-up is horrible. 768 kbps is 14 times fasters. HUGE difference. My mother doesn't do any downloading. She doesn't visit any video streaming sites. Frankly for her to pay $50 a month for 10 Mbps from Charter would be a huge waste of money when she can get 768 kbps from at&t for $15-$20 a month and not really notice any difference. | |
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join:2005-09-28
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| When people call us they almost always have two things on their mind. How much does it cost and does it work reliably. Where are these super cheap rates from Comcast? We get calls every day from people who complain that Comcast does not work reliably and that it is too expensive. When I ask how much they are paying they say they are paying 50 bucks for their internet. | |
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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| The thing about these DSL adds is that Verizon and at&t are updating to technologies beyond DSL. A lot of the subs they're losing in DSL are going to U-Verse (which is technically DSL, but is usually separated from traditional ADSL) and FiOS, which isn't really a net loss from the telco's perspective (well, they may make more money off of the DSL customer, but that's a different story than net adds). Meanwhile they're heavily promoting the new products to the exclusion of the old DSL, even in areas where deployment of the new technology is not 100% (i.e. all of them, essentially). So it's not surprising that DSL adds are down- after all, they're essentially abandoning it. | |
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Bobcat
1.20.09 - The End of an Error
Premium
join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Cablevision is too expensive. They've raised their prices over the years, while DSL prices have dropped overall.
I can't afford $45 per month for Cablevision's Internet service, no matter how fast it is. My 3 Mbps DSL costs $32 per month.
Cablevision called me again last night, at dinnertime. I hung up on the bastards. | |
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RR Conductor
Premium
join:2002-04-02
Redwood Valley, CA
·Comcast
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September 17th, @04:47AM
| Distance One huge reason Cable HSI is beating out DSL, distance. With Cable, there is no distance limit on getting HSI, with DSL you have to be within a certain limit to be able to get it. Out here in Redwood Valley, AT&T hasn't even upgraded their CO for DSL, Comcast has HSI out here though, and the nearest DSL is in Ukiah, 8 miles south of here.
In fact, in Mendocino County Comcast services Ukiah, Talmage, Calpella, Redwood Valley, Willits, Fort Bragg, Albion, Caspar, Little River, Mendocino and Inglenook, AT&T has DSL in Ukiah, Willits and Fort Bragg, you can see the obvious lack of DSL around here. The other broadband option, Willits Online (a WISP), serves Redwood Valley, Potter Valley, Willits, Laytonville, Covelo, Hopland and Fort Bragg. This is a very rural county (3800 Sq.Miles in size, 88,000 population), so many still have no broadband options. | |
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yawn
Premium
join:2005-12-30
Tempe, AZ | Worldwide Broadband Subscribers Top 382.4m - Growth Slows Growth slows due to speeds remain constant and price goes up.
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