Arthur S. Alexion on Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:10:05 -0500 |
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 12:11, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:20:39PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > DCA's business pricing was far higher than everyone was getting on > > their personal pricing. Most DCA subscribers on this list with > > personal plans were talking about total pricing of about $50/month. I > > called about a business plan and was quoted a minimum of $160 or more. > > That's universal, though. > > Part of a "business" contract is a service level agreement. No home > user has that. (Granted, I don't care, since I can fix most problems > that aren't in the CO myself, but...) > > -- > gabriel rosenkoetter > gr@eclipsed.net Its universal because they can. I have had business telephone service for 11 years now, and the only thing I get more of is paper comprising my bill. With telephones, it was always that the business customers were subsidizing cheap residential phone service for all. I suspect that is the unspoken philosophy behind business broadband pricing. -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC mailto:arthur@alexion.com http://www.alexion.com _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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