Is it aggressive when you only get ~30GB? My $60 customers regularly do 100-200 GB.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 1:44 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting. 25mbps for $40 is pretty aggressive. > On 7/31/2020 1:28 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > That’s their old service. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Friday, July 31, 2020 12:11 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Verizon launches new LTE Home Internet service - > CNET > > > > 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. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Friday, July 31, 2020 11:33 AM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Verizon launches new LTE Home Internet service - > CNET > > > > 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 > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Jaime Solorza > *Sent:* Friday, July 31, 2020 10:30 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Verizon launches new LTE Home Internet service - CNET > > > > https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-launches-new-lte-home-internet-service/ > > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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