The Broadband Negotiation
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Brad in Science and Technology | Twitter: @bradhart |
Broadband is one of the most competitive consumer markets that most consumers simply don’t realize are competitive. What does this mean? First and foremost it means that you are likely over paying for your service if you haven’t checked out what else is available and gone back to your current provider with a list of price quotes. As with anything you need to make sure you get companies and prices without error, or your current provider won’t make a deal. If you fudge the number or get them wrong, they will know and you won’t get squat.
So just how competitive is it you ask. Let me put it this way. Recently, I when my contract was about to expire with mu current three letter DSL carrier that also provides my phone service I called them up and told them I was considering going with company X for DSL service and the woman was shocked that I would consider such a thing because they provided me with my local and long distance phone service and were giving me a discount on that because I got DSL too. I mentioned the price I was offered for such and such speed and said I was thinking about dropping my land line altogether. By the time my negotiation was done, I had the fastest DSL service offered, a bigger discount on my other services and all it cost me was a year contract for less money than i was paying for mediocre but adequate speed DSL before. If you know your stuff, know that you can get a discount every time.
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traadloest bredbaand
15. Jun, 2009
Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just broadband, is high data rate Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over a 56k modem.