Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15

2006-02-03 Thread Pete Davis
I think ATT and Verizon are facing considerable bleeding from the growing segment of the population who are dropping the land lines and going strictly wireless phone service (like me). Getting them into a DSL contract makes them keep their land line for another year (or pay a $200 early disconn

Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15

2006-02-03 Thread John Scrivner
Remember "free" dialup? I thought I was going to be SO broke. I had a quarter million $ worth of leases on modem pools and was charging $20 and thought I was going to have a heart attack when K-Mart's bluelight.net free dialup came to my town. Guess what, only one person switched to them and th

Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15

2006-02-03 Thread Tom DeReggi
is concern, he just needed someone that could help him. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Peter R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:09 PM Su

Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15

2006-02-03 Thread Peter R.
The thinking is that everyone wants to do huge numbers. Well, reality is a whole other thing. Even if you could price it at $14.77, you still couldn't do the volume to make it. (The lack of advertising for one). Quick story: guy in Ky was selling DSl for $39.95, same as BST. He had 32 customers

Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15

2006-02-03 Thread Tom DeReggi
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Mac Dearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15 Through a promotion, AT&T has

Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15

2006-02-03 Thread Travis Johnson
You can't compete on price. You will never win. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc. don't have to make money on internet services right now they can stand to drop millions each year, until things settle down (10 years from now?). We have CableOne and Qwest in our market. We are still doing $40 per

Re: [WISPA] AT&T slashes DSL price under $15

2006-02-03 Thread Mac Dearman
Through a promotion, AT&T has again cut its DSL price to $12.99 per month for the first 12 months in an attempt to aggressively woo potential customers as an alternative to cable companies. After a one-year contract, the price increases to $29.99. AT&T also cut its mid-tier DSL offering to $17.