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Broadband blackhole no more
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
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 ·AT&T Midwest
| Sounds like... SBC (AT&T) 3 years ago, get with the times Verizon. You should be offering those prices without a commitment, 768kbps won't be worth a jack 2 years from now.
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koolman2
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join:2002-10-01
Anchorage, AK | Re: Sounds like... We said exactly that about 256 kbps two years ago, and guess what! We were right!
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Jodokast96
R.I.P Bassman442
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join:2005-11-23
Erial, NJ | Re: Sounds like... Not worth it at all for $25 a year. | |
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Jodokast96
R.I.P Bassman442
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join:2005-11-23
Erial, NJ | Re: Sounds like... Who cares about AT&T? Since you can't choose between the two it doesn't matter what the other offers. | |
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LiquidSean
join:2007-08-05
Purcellville, VA | The real way to get new customers... If they want Mucho new customers, the only thing to do is to provide HSI to the boonies. But, I guess that's what WiMax'll be for... | |
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Dezbend
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join:2001-04-20
| Existing cusotmers and new promotions... or give it to me with no term
Verizon and Qwest require a 2-year term to get the price for life, but Embarq has been doing it with no term.
It is important to know if Verizon allows existing customers to take advantage of new promotions... if not it seems silly locking yourself into a price for life with a product that has seen price decreases over the past few years.
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JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL | No Fios for you! Sounds to me if you have this offered in your area, you will not be getting FIOS anytime soon. Maybe even in your lifetime.
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| whiteyonenh
join:2004-08-09
Keene, NH
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·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: What Happens.. said by swintec  :What happens to us Mainers when they sell us to Fairpoint? Do we get to keep the price for life?  That might be an interesting question, considering the pending sale. I know a few people that definitely won't be happy with the prices that are currently priced out for other Fairpoint areas, and knowing that they will most likely not move over to Comcast, as there is no reason for them to pay more for the increase in speed. These are former dial-up users that truthfully don't need more than the 768/128 DSL. | |
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join:2005-01-13
Portland, ME | Re: What Happens.. Oh Unfairpoint. | |
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kenn10
join:2003-09-10
Kennesaw, GA | Unusually High Call Volume Well, for existing customers wishing to extend their service with the one year plan, the web site does not work (IE6, IE7 or Firefox.)
If you call, you get "Due to unusually high call volume, all our lines are full. Please call back later." | |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
·RoadRunner Cable
edit:
August 27th, @04:49PM
| HELL NO What happen to the old days where you kept customers by offering a good service? Who in their right mind would lock themselves into a contract, especially with an internet provider? If something better or faster comes along, you are stuck for the duration (2 yrs). Not to mention, if the service starts having lots of problems, you are also out of luck. You can try to fight them on a non performance clause, but your headache level might skyrocket before you get out of it. Hence, anyone who buys into this offer is a complete and utter fool. Then again, those type of people are born every minute. | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | 2048 Thats about the year that everyone will have dsl.  | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| gimmick It's just another marketing gimmick. "For life" should be defined. The mergers of at least 1/2 dozen local phone companies now make-up Verizon. Have any former "for life" programs actually held up? Hmm, I doubt it. When a telco has an incentive to offer it's customers a contract... that's when you should start RUNNING the OTHER way.. as in cable, or another alternative.
Signing up for a long-term contract with Verizon gives them carte blanch to abuse the relationship. Same thing goes with a cable company. Besides, if you don't already live in an area with FIOS or comparable product, I recommend moving. Even the "BIGGEST" dsl offering (cough,cough AT&T isn't worth signing a contract.. not that you have to, AT&T signed one for $10 768kbit dsl as a concession to acquire bELL sOUTH. Try to sign up for at&t's $10 plan and all they'll give you is "B/S".. no it doesn't stand for bell south..
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| Dolgan
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join:2005-10-01
Sun Prairie, WI
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: gimmick It is only about customer retention. Verizon has learned that locking customers into long term contracts is the one of the few ways that they can keep their dwindling copper line service base in areas that have competition. The Execs keep thinking line loss is due to the emergence of Cellphones and Cable Co Phone service. The reality is that Verizon has all but abandoned their copper lines by performing no maintainence, not staffing enough field techs to keep up with the workload, and ignoring the needs/wants of their copperline customers.
The deployment of 7/1 DSL, more RTs, and equipping more COs with DSL should have been going hand in hand with the FIOS Rollout in the areas that will not be seeing FIOS for 10+ years{if they ever will see it}. The BS about having to "Lineshare" with the CLECs as a reason to not deploy/upgrade/maintain the lines is moot in a majority of the ex-GTE Areas as there are no CLECs. The biggest competition in the ex-GTE areas are Cable Cos and Cellphones. Verizon is losing the race against the competition in most of these areas, and this is just another lackluster attempt of fixing a problem by putting a band-aid on it.
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brooklynman4
join:2004-09-07
Brooklyn, NY | Re: Lock in technology? Thats not life time it has a end year on it so they should change that. | |
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sivran
God Save The Suite
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
clubs: | Re: Lock in technology? Why sign up for a contract at all unless you use a massive amount of minutes? Pre-paid all the way!. | |
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Ream0
@rr.com | Bring It On! ....Oh wait,DSL isn't available in my area. Verizon promised to deploy it back in 1998 but didn't deliver.
This looks like a cheesy attempt to trick a few prospective customers.
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Rob A
Jets AFC East Champs
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join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | $27 Nice price for 3Mbps. I actually only pay $24.99/month for my verizon dsl 3Mbps/768Kbps (I bundle all 3 services) with no commitment. But if it evers goes up I'll sign the 2 yr agreement. | |
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alanisrox69
join:2005-03-29
LHV, PA
·RCN CABLE
| ... Yeah they should be spending time and money deploying faster DSL. 3mbps just doesn't cut it anymore.
Who cares about lifetime pricing. 3mbps will be $15 from other companies in 5 years or less.....
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halfband
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join:2002-06-01
Huntsville, AL
·Comcast
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August 28th, @09:22AM
| Re: ... said by alanisrox69 :Yeah they should be spending time and money deploying faster DSL. 3mbps just doesn't cut it anymore. Verizon is spending all their time and money deploying FIOS. They are not going to be doing any kind of extensive DSL upgrades. Now AT&T is a different animal.
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ncbill
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join:2007-01-23
Winston Salem, NC
·AT&T Southeast
| No deal, service just keeps getting cheaper Started with the cable company for $45/month in 2003.
Switched to Earthlink cable for $42/month in 2004.
Switched to AT&T DSL for $10 month this July, price good through the end of 2009.
Offered $30/month by Earthlink when I called to cancel.
If I ever go back to cable broadband it's clear I won't have to pay more than $30/month.
Can't imagine what price wars there will be when WiMax and other wireless gets deployed locally. | |
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