I worked for centurytel for 5 1/2 years. I never met a person who was happy with the phone service. Heck I don't know too many happy employees there either.
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Jayson Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
