Bassturds! On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Marlon K. Schafer <[email protected]>wrote:
> Gotta offer higher speeds. > > Better service (customer service especially). > > Get a REAL bill from one of your customers. It won't be for $15. They'll > have taxes, usage fees, modem rental etc. tacked on there. > > I've asked people that have switched from us to give us a copy of the bill > so we can see just how much they are really "saving". No one has ever > brought in a bill. I don't think they save one red cent. > > BTW, you can thank USF for this. The telco will give away internet to keep > the subsidies on the land line rolling in. > > Out here Century Tel/link gets between $60 and $100 per month per line in > USF funds (depends on who you ask). One of my congressional staff folks > told me that Century Tel gets 2/3rds of it's income from subsidies of one > kind or another. Heck, that makes them a government agency, not a private > phone company :-). > > deep sigh > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <[email protected]> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:05 AM > Subject: [WISPA] how to compete with $15 DSL > > > > Local phone company here just expanded their DSL coverage area and mailed > > out fliers to everyone for $15 DSL. I see no mention of it being a > > promotional price. One person said as long as you have it they will not > > raise the rate from $15. Think its for 768k service. Anyways we are > > getting > > about 1 person a day switching from our $35/month/768k wireless service > to > > this DSL. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to retain these > > customers???? They are not even giving us a chance to offer them a lower > > price as they all already have the DSL turned on and been using it for a > > month before they cancel ours. > > > > > > > > Kurt Fankhauser > > WAVELINC > > P.O. Box 126 > > Bucyrus, OH 44820 > > 419-562-6405 > > www.wavelinc.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
