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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
From: "Daniel Senie" <[email protected]> > Verizon, it's particularly sad, charges $19.95/month for dialup > that'll also tie up a POTS line, where it'll offer the lowest DSL > speeds at $14.95. And Verizon "cherry picks" the places where it > offers DSL (and moreso for FiOS) so the affluent towns get high speed > service, while the rural and poorer places only have available dialup > (and that dialup is more expensive). In my experience, the support cost of DSL is significantly cheaper than dial-up in terms of helpdesk calls. DSL/Cable/FiOS is typically a plug and play, where as dialup can be quite a bit more troublesome, involving more tech time in the long run.
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