Interesting. 25mbps for $40 is pretty aggressive.
On 7/31/2020 1:28 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
That’s their old service.
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25Mbps? The link shows me "average speeds of 5-12Mbps"
Are they showing us each something different based on where we are?
This is what I see:
On 7/31/2020 1:04 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
25 Mbps for $40/month?
Of course that’s “up to” 25 Mbps, and $60 if you don’t have a
Verizon cellphone.
What strikes me is I would never try to sell 25 Mbps service with
an indoor DIY install.
I know LTE makes everything magic, and maybe they’re using low
band instead of mid band spectrum, but if this is targeting rural
areas, you can’t count on the celltower being a mile away.
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They're advertising modest speeds at high prices. If we were
selling 5mbps for $60-150/month that might change our model too.
It might only take a handful of customers to pay the tower rent,
and you might not care if they all had garbage signal.
I'd imagine QoS is tied to signal strength (like an airtime based
algorithm) and that incentivizes the customer to get higher signal
strength because they can see a better speed test result if they
get more bars. They might prefer the modem to live in the
basement, but if they get a tangibly better outcome by putting it
upstairs in the bay window then they might do that. Of course,
Clearwire taught us that might also lead to tupperware on the roof.
On 7/31/2020 11:53 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Instead of a professionally installed outdoor “cantenna”, they
use an indoor LTE modem, yet somehow it is faster than their
previous LTE based service, and has no data cap.
https://www.verizonwireless.com/home-services/lte-internet-installed/
Yet when we want to offer faster service, we use high gain
outdoor antennas. Either Verizon knows something we don’t, or
more likely just like in the early days of DSL, the key to
making the service profitable is to eliminate the truck roll
and have the customer do an indoor self-install.
Oh, and Gizmodo had some quibbles with the new Verizon home
Internet service:
https://gizmodo.com/read-the-fine-print-on-verizons-new-4g-home-internet-1844562135
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