Takes a long time to pay 43m back with 500/mo revenue.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:17 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller <[email protected] > wrote: > > But how do you pay for your fiber installation if you don't charge $500 > for gig speeds? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Rory Conaway <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *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:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *CBB - Jay Fuller > *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2016 9:40 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *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:* [email protected] > > *To:* [email protected] > > *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 <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:12 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > > *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 <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:40 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > > *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 > > > >
