[ale] DirecTV & BellSouth

[Matty]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 19:30, Greg wrote:
> ok, I have heard the reason that all of the other ISP's that DirecTV
> recommends in other areas (outside of BellSouth) have offered better deals
> than BellSouth is because BellSouth would not buy the customers from
> DirecTV.  Apparently BS told them "we are not paying for the customers since
> we will get them anyway".
> 
> Kinda stupid, as the gross majority of DirecTV'ers are those who are PC
> savvy and want 1)a static IP; 2)DNS hosting; and 3) a low, reasonable price.
> All of which BS does not care to offer any customers but instead tries to
> shaft them with "business" fees.

I don't think they are shafting anyone. Looking at it from a business
perspective, why pay for customers that you can acquire through
attrition? The $44.95 price tag is trying to market to residential
customers who need high speed web/news/email access. Very few of the
CLECs/iLECs will provide hosting capable services with their residential
packages. 

> 
> Greg
> 
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