And an amazing price "for 6 months" or "for 12 months"?
Plus bundled with TV, so switching means getting satellite TV or cutting the
cord. So inertia takes over unless the cableco really pisses you off. The
good news is many people seem to believe if you cancel cable TV, you cancel
the whole bundle and shop for Internet elsewhere. So cord cutting is on our
side. (Except for the bandwidth usage.)
I guess you could advertise 100 gigabytes and rely on most people not
knowing the difference between gigabytes and megabits per second? (Oooooh,
100 is faster than 60.) Or advertise your 5 GHz service and rely on most
people not knowing the the difference between 5 GHz and 4G.
Occasionally I think we need to figure out how to efficiently and
economically install OTA antennas for people to encourage people to ditch
cable TV. I guess CBS and HBO are trying to do that also with their online
subscriptions, but that only makes sense for people if they only watch shows
on a couple networks, otherwise you end up paying $6/mo to each one plus
Netflix.
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Mattinen via Af
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:08 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Random thought
On 10/18/14, 7:57 AM, Paul Conlin via Af wrote:
Those stupid fast speeds sure do make it harder to get face time with
potential customers however. Cable COs are making 25 Mbps the new base.
The base is 60 meg here.
~Seth
