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One major issue, at least here in Provo, was that their only high-speed offering (at first) was $70/mo. This is a high-proportion college town, and almost no st
by mholt 8y ago
One major issue, at least here in Provo, was that their only high-speed offering (at first) was $70/mo. This is a high-proportion college town, and almost no students can afford that (even split amongst themselves). Even if they could, almost nobody wanted to because why pay for that when the free plan works good enough? A speed test at fast.com reveals that Netflix still streams at gigabit speeds even on the free plans. YouTube is similar. (They seem to open the fire hose on those sites!)
Now they have a fifty dollar 100 Mbps plan. But students don't pay for that, either, because they don't know about it.
It was not a well-thought-out business plan.
Their seven-year contract will be expiring soon. Will be interesting to see what happens then.
- bubblethink 8y ago$50 for 100 Mbps is still bordering on expensive. Comcast undercuts that, at least in the promo period. They jack it up after the period, but that's the usual thing with Comcast. You need to renegotiate or change accounts. So the less informed as well as cheapskates would still go with Comcast. What you get with GF is symmetric 100Mbps and better quality, but hardly anyone would know that.