But how do you pay for your fiber installation if you don't charge $500 for gig speeds?
----- Original Message ----- From: Rory Conaway To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The latest gig city I’ve written about this multiple times and if I remember right Mike, you hammered me. We are also doing marketing tests right now and found that even if CenturyLink can’t maintain NetFlix without buffering with a supposed 10Mbps circuit, offering 50Mbps at the same price doesn’t get people to change although that’s early results. We are finding price is better. Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 9:40 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The latest gig city I remember hearing Chuck Hogg and Gerard Dupont @ Shelby Wireless explain when they started fiber they left it wide open for a few months just to see....they did not see an unusually large change just because service was wide open.... ----- Original Message ----- From: ch...@wbmfg.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The latest gig city Back in the early days, I doubled the speeds of all of our customers 2 or 3 times due to competitive pressures and advancements in Canopy. I never increased the price, just went from 256 to 512 to 1024. Never saw an increase in the bandwidth usage on our uplinks. What could a Bob and Sally homeowner and their kids do to make a significant usage of a Gig? Of course everyone thinks it is sexy and the next thing you gotta have, but there only so many 4K 3D TVs a person can watch at one time. I guess they could host a server farm etc, but most folks will not even fully utilize 50M in the near future. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:12 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The latest gig city Interesting. Of course, one way to read the numbers is they could “upgrade” all the 110/50 customers to 1000/1000 and the only change would be $400 less revenue per month, and probably no more bandwidth usage. This is probably the marketing approach of most gigabit ISPs. If some killer app comes out that actually uses gigabit speeds, their bluff is called. From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:40 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] The latest gig city One subscriber at the gig level.... http://spectator.org/alabamas-gig-city-has-one-gigabit-broadband-subscriber/ Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone
