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1. Comment - AOL: Drop Dial-Up, Get Broadband

   (Feb 22, 2006 - 2:44 PM)

   All these comments about 'people in the sticks' are totally patronising. I wouldn't consider myself 'poor' or living in a 'bad' neighbourhood or anything like that, but yes, my family can't afford broadband. Nothing to do with where I live or how much my family earns
   
   And broadband companies are using totally the wrong way to get more customers (well, here in England anyway) - they keep the price (which is too expensive for a large proportion of the population) the same, but increase the speed of the connection to attract more customers. Now, surely to attract new customers companies should keep the speed of their basic package the same - say 512k (with unlimited bandwidth of course :) ) - but lower the price. I think many more people would pay say £10 a month for a 512k connection than £20 a month for a 2 meg connection; 512k is more than fast enough for most people.
   
   Going back to AOL, yes, to encourage people to move from dialup to broadband they should even up the prices of the two. But for god's sake lower the price of the broadband instead of raising the price of dialup, lest you will lose your customers.
   [End of rant]