[PLUG-TALK] Verizon 5g home internet offering

[Russell Senior]

Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> writes:

> I had a visit from a sales person. She claimed $50/mo, 50 Meg bits/sec
> rate (I forgot whether up or down). She said she could only sign up 4
> accounts for the area she was covering. Claimed the tower will support only
> the internet; not cell phones.
>
> I wonder how this makes business sense. How many $50 accounts would Verizon
> need to have to pay for the tower? How many accounts could the tower
> reliably support?  What are other issues (other than Verizon's historically
> terrible customer service!)?

The door-to-door sales people are generally not purveyors of information
you can rely on. The "only 4 accounts available" sounds like it's about
creating a psychology of scarcity to drive buying enthusiasm.

My general advice is that you are better off with a wire.

-- 
Russell Senior
russell at pdxlinux.org