Re: [WISPA] Lack of Competition Leaves U.S. 16th Among IndustrializedNations
I get more and more frustrated with these kinds of titles... You'd think there wasn't broadband available. There's broadband available in an amazingly wide area... But you can't force consumers to buy it. This is probably just the first volley of a campaign to gin up a few hundred billion to give to the telcos as subsidy to lower the price of broadband... We should be very wary of this kind of misleading stuff, it's going to bite us big time if we don't speak up and get some real perspective seen. +++ neofast.net - fast internet for North East Oregon and South East Washington email me at mark at neofast dot net 541-969-8200 Direct commercial inquiries to purchasing at neofast dot net - Original Message - From: Dawn DiPietro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:27 AM Subject: [WISPA] Lack of Competition Leaves U.S. 16th Among IndustrializedNations U.S. Still Lags In Broadband Access Lack of Competition Leaves U.S. 16th Among Industrialized Nations By Martin H. Bosworth ConsumerAffairs.Com September 17, 2006 The constant refrain of major telecommunications and cable companies is that there's heavy competition for the Internet user's dollar. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Lack of Competition Leaves U.S. 16th Among IndustrializedNations
We are actually at the point where about 68% of the US population has Internet. The rest don't own a computer or do not want Internet. Some of that 68% is still on dial-up. For some it is a price thing. For some it is not understanding technology. For some it is to make the experience painful to avoid wasting hours on the internet. So dropping the price - as SBC and VZ have experienced - to sub-$15 gets you some dial-up conversions. But when the price returns to normal, some switch back to cheaper dial-up. The dilemma becomes How do you get more internet appliance (PC's, laptops, PDAs, internet terminal) penetration? The marketing question is: What Remarkable Useful things can you do with broadband (other than entertainment)? That's my 2 cents. Peter @ RAD-INFO, Inc. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Lack of Competition Leaves U.S. 16th Among IndustrializedNations
Peter R. wrote: We are actually at the point where about 68% of the US population has Internet. The rest don't own a computer or do not want Internet. Some of that 68% is still on dial-up. For some it is a price thing. For some it is not understanding technology. For some it is to make the experience painful to avoid wasting hours on the internet. So dropping the price - as SBC and VZ have experienced - to sub-$15 gets you some dial-up conversions. But when the price returns to normal, some switch back to cheaper dial-up. The dilemma becomes How do you get more internet appliance (PC's, laptops, PDAs, internet terminal) penetration? The marketing question is: What Remarkable Useful things can you do with broadband (other than entertainment)? That's my 2 cents. Peter @ RAD-INFO, Inc. I agree with you, I still have a considerable amount of dial up subscribers. There needs to be a motivator, other than price, that makes these types of users decide to trade up. They have to want to. And I thought giant pictures killing their email would have done the trick by now :( George -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
