What I remember is what is on their web site: $89 for home, $139 for
business. The $50 was mentioned as the difference. It sounds like I had
the highest download speed in the group currently, 80mb/s, but still I
am willing to commit to switching to Ting. In fact, I’d commit to the
business rate. It would give me 12 times the download speed and 58 times
the upload speed, but mostly it would give us much more reliable
service.
--Barry
On 3 Mar 2016, at 16:09, Nick Thompson wrote:
Hi, everybody,
Many of you will recall that a representative of Ting Internet visited
with
"the local chapter" last Friday, hosted by my friend Sean Moody, who
works
for the City. Ting is a Canadian business whose business model
includes
bringing fiber to cities like Santa Fe. I asked Sean to get back to
us, and
his report appears below.
If I understand correctly, the crucial issue seems to be whether
enough of
our fellow citizens are sufficiently fed up with our current service
to make
a switch. I may have mis-heard, but I thought I heard you guys
bandying
around a number like $50/mo. With I am certainly in at that price.
Does
any of you remember that conversation?
See below,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
<http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: MOODY, SEAN [mailto:sxmo...@ci.santa-fe.nm.us]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 3:18 PM
To: Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Ting Internet
Hi Nick,
Please share with FRIAM:
Thanks to everyone for the collegial reception. The visit was quite
successful. I think Adam got a sufficient taste of Santa Fe to help
<https://ting.com/internet> Ting make a decision. And I got enough
insight
into their business model to understand what the city would need to do
to
rank high on their list of prospective locations. The two factors
driving an
investment decision are the capital expense per service drop, which
typically ranges between $2,000 and $8,000 depending on local
conditions,
and the expected "take rate", or ratio of subscribers-to-drops along a
street or fiber segment, which ranges between 8% and 40% depending on
the
community's level of satisfaction with current providers.
Our next challenge is to prove to Ting that the take rate will be
sufficient, and to provide the regulatory environment that will keep
utility
construction costs under control.
I was extremely impressed by this particular company. Fundamental to
their
thinking is the reproducibility of their model across many different
urban
environments. Hence their taking the time to understand Santa Fe. I
honestly
think they've got a page or two on Google Fiber in this regard.
Lastly, you FRIAM folks may appreciate the graphic below. It
illustrates the
correlation between broadband speed and household income. The report
<http://hugin.info/1061/R/1729555/577891.pdf> from which it is
extracted is
one of the few I have encountered approaching the issue objectively.
Sean
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